Word: wowing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prettiest sister, fastest horse, and ugliest dog in the deestrict." He could "tote a steam boat up the Mississippi and over the Alleghany mountains." His father could "whip the best man in old Kaintuck, and I can whip my father." All in all, the colonel was a wow back in the 1830s-the literary prototype of the tall-talking frontiersman, the first introduction to the stage of native Western humor. But what had happened to the play that first made him famous? Until last week, most scholars could point to that as a U.S. literary mystery...
...announced: " 'I want to roll the dice for $1,000.' She picked up the dice and began rubbing them up and down the front of her dress, all the while chanting 'Come seven, come eleven'-and each time she rubbed, her neckline got lower, wow. Finally, she threw the dice hard, shouted, 'There's my eleven!' grabbed her winnings and ran ... As she was disappearing, one croupier turned to the other and asked in a daze: 'Uh-did you see that eleven?' 'No,' said the other softly, his eyes...
...WOW! A WARM WELL-KOME to Reader Brown (a WHIZ), WHOS entry has KLAS and WINS in a WALK...
...trans-Pacific flight once more. In Hawaii, before winging on to his new home, Lee was welcomed with a jar of kimchi (Korean pickled cabbage), which he ate, and a pair of cowboy six-shooters, which he quickly buckled on. Lee responded with one of his few English words: "Wow...
Billy Bunter is always in trouble: he is "whopped" ("Wow! Oh! Oh. crumbs! Wow!"), smacked ("Yarooh! Ow! Wow! Ooogh! Beast! Wow!"), and "spiflicated" unmercifully ("Ow! I say-wow! I say-oh. crikey!"). But in spite of such misadventures, Billy Bunter has managed to survive-at the same age and in the same school-for 45 years. Last week Britons were once again reading all about him in a new book called Billy Bunter's Brain-Wave, by Charles Hamilton...