Word: wowing
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...considers Jean Borotra the game's greatest showman and most expert faker. The best player: Don Budge, who had "no subtlety, no finesse, little grace and practically no variety to his game, but for hitting power-Wow...
There are just enough weak spots in the program, and inexperienced people in the cast, to prevent Make Mine Manhattan from being a wow. The cast as a whole is not terribly adroit, but it has the conceivably greater virtue of being enormously likable...
...wow he died as wow he lived...
...John Jacob Astor dazzled Manhattan's El Morocco nightclub by exhibiting Wow-wow, her Chihuahua, in a new look. Wow-wow-a male-had a diamond ring on each paw and a sapphire choker around his innocent neck...
...parlor wit who thinks of radio as a parlor instrument ("some homes got them next to toilets"). But he seems hard-pressed to transport the highball-and-cigaret intimacy of his friends' living rooms into the U.S. parlor. His cement-mixer voice strains with eagerness to wow the audience. And while most of his parodies and songs are funny, the jokes which string them together sometimes clank (sample: "As for personal habits ... I ain't got none...