Word: wowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the chorus rhythmically seesawing its arms, that bears a remarkable resemblance to the title dance of Hello, Dolly! Imported Star Tommy Steele is a kind of cockney Bobby Morse. He has a boyishly infectious half-moon grin, and his ingratiating style is to woo an audience rather than wow...
...sense that it is a report of the architecture of a head. What really counts in a portrait is what would be of interest to persons other than the subject or his family." Brice is not sure that he really captured Perls. But his subject is sure. "Wow!" says Perls. "He sees me stuffing myself and drinking myself into a monster-dreamer state in order to fulfill dreams of happiness. I probably saved $5,000 worth of analysis by looking at this portrait...
...Enquirer with a confident proposal to find and trim several hundred thousand dollars worth of waste effort. The prospect was warmly welcomed by Charles Staab, 60, the Enquirer's executive vice president and business manager, and something of a fat trimmer himself: eight years of Staab-inspired wow (for "Wipe Out Waste") campaigns have, among other-things, reduced the mail-room staff by introducing automation...
...Wow-Wow. Material came from home too. When Ethel Merman sang the funny patter song By the Mississine-wah in 1943's Something for the Boys, she was singing about the river that flowed through the 750-acre property in rural Indiana, where Cole Porter was raised. His father was an Indiana fruitgrower, and his grandfather was a coal and timber baron worth $50 million. As a boy, Porter was a prodigy who was writing songs before he was ten. When he got to Yale (class of 1913), he immortalized the college mascot; Yalemen will remember him forever...
More and more, the food in U.S. restaurants seems to be going to the dogs -going there in paper sacks called Bowser Bags and Bow-Wow Bags...