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Word: wowing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Money isn't everything, so we'll overlook her $32 million if you will print a full-length picture of Ana Maria Alvarez Calderón. WOW...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...February 1928 the little nine-piece band had made a big hit with dance fans, and was all set to make an even bigger one. For their first appearance on a vaudeville bill in Chicago's Palace Theater, they had a wow comic-hat routine to go with I Wish I Was In Peoria and a noisy harness gag for Thanks for the Buggy Ride. But they put their new act on only once. Stormed the theater manager: "For the $4,000 a week we're paying you, we can get a good comedian for every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Same Old Way | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...Wow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 28, 1949 | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...overhaul the White House [TIME, Feb. 7]. Wow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 28, 1949 | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...keep his fans interested. He spends most of his spare time writing postcards to disc jockeys, answering fan mail, getting around the country ("You've got to get out and let the people who buy your albums see you"), and dropping into record shops to wow the salesgirls. Says Frankie, who likes to say his success is all a mystery and not a matter of mugging, writhing and hard work: "I can't explain it. Some people say I'm a fluke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Feels Good That Way | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

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