Word: wowing
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...these so-called "neutral" military observers who frequently pontificate in your footnotes? Are they the same false prophets and professional propagandists who told the American people that the French Army was the best (sic) in the world and that the Maginot Line was impregnable? Wow they tell us that the riff-R.A.F. pilots are superior to the Germans and Italians [TIME, Aug. 19]. Whence comes this sudden superiority...
...Wow song of the show is sung by Doris Hare, dressed as a dirty-faced Cockney ragamuffin who has been shipped to the country...
...Wow new show, packed with soldiers and sailors and their girls, is the Palladium's wartime revue. Evening's best laugh: a sign over a box reading 40 hommes, 8 chevaux. Most popular song: F. D. R. Jones. The military finale of Act I drops "air raid" pamphlets called Ruthless Rhymes for Little Nastiz from under the roof. Sample rhyme...
...tossed in trim Noel Van Ness (Danish-born Cinemactress Osa Massen), also blown in from Bali and quite tropical too about Burnett. When that fails, the story just starts running around in circles, from Nassau to Bali to Manhattan. Hero MacMurray is like Poet Kenneth Fearing's hero: wow he woos her, zowie he kisses her, wham he MacMurrays her. Fans fagged out with so much traveling take the producers' word for it that the happy couple have enough energy left to make another trip to Bali for the honeymoon...
...pulp magazine field. Many keep every issue, and a copy of the magazine's first issue often fetches $25 from collectors. Publishers soon discovered another odd fact about their readers: They are exceptionally articulate. Most of these magazines have letters columns, in which readers appraise stories. Sample: "Gosh! Wow! Boyoh-boy!, and so forth and so on. Yesiree, yesiree, it's the greatest in the land and the best that's on the stand, and I do mean THRILLING WONDER STORIES, and especially that great, magnificent, glorious, most thrilling June issue of the mosta and the besta...