Word: wowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What had come over Leopold Stokowski? It was as if Actor Maurice Evans had gradually altered his Hamlet to the style of Cinemactor Robert Taylor. At his first appearance with the NBC Symphony last week, fading Stokowski,* master of the symphonic wow technique, dealt confusion to many a musician under him, and many a critic behind him: Stokowski's increasing preoccupation with inflated, ear-tickling orchestral sonorities seemed to have got out of hand...
This case will be argued by the Pow Wow Club, and the James Club, while the Powell Club, and the Edward Warren Club will take part in a second case involving divorce laws...
Arguing for the "Commissioner of Internal Revenue" will be the Pow Wow Club, H. Truxton Emerson, Jr. and Robert G. Zeller, counsels; and for the "Brainard Corporation," Bernard Lisman and Edward Harvey Smith representing the James Club. All participants are third-year students...
...British had scarcely announced the formation of super-tough raiding forces to be known as Commandos (TIME, Oct. 20) when the Commando legends began to fly. Last week London reported a wow...
...start on the Borscht Circuit in the Catskills, hopped off for Siam and Singapore in a vaudeville act, stayed in the small time until he met his wife. She contrived for him dizzy skits that released all his mimicry, highlighted his genius for making gibberish exciting and hilarious. A wow with them at Manhattan's smart La Martinique, he was snatched up by Moss Hart for Lady in the Dark. In Lady he stopped the show cold with Ira Gershwin's lyric for Tchaikovsky-rattling off the names of 54 Russian composers in about 40 seconds...