Word: wowserism
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...drama," she says. "The movie will have lots of girl appeal, especially the Queen's costumes. She has a different fancy dress for each of her eight scenes." The throne-room dress alone took two months to complete and features globules of lights around the hem. It's a wowser...
...Swingtime Canteen is not an excuse for a drag show. It is an evocative balancing act of music and comedy, parody and sentiment. The girls strut their tight harmonies with an Andrews Sisters medley--12 songs!--that's a wowser. And they escalate into feeling with I'll Be Seeing You. This gorgeous rendition works as a reminder of what the boys were fighting for, and what any struggle--war in the '40s, AIDS in the '90s--means to the combatants: pain and loss, and a sweet, frail hope...
...Hynes Civelli Willson, 46, who as a meaty teen-ager (15 years, 163 Ibs.) married (1926) sack-shaped moneybags Edward West ("Daddy") Browning, 51, six months later set the 1920s roaring at the decade's wildest divorce suit, in which she testified that Daddy (a "grey-haired old wowser," Damon Runyon reported) sometimes crawled around making "funny noises," was inordinately fond of a pet African honking gander; of a brain hemorrhage and liver failure after a fall in her Manhattan apartment. Peaches lost her divorce suit, but after Daddy died (1934) won $154,971 as his legal widow, later...
...Sample wowser...
Last week the wowsers melted a little around the edges. They agreed that recreation buildings for soldiers might be opened on Sundays, say from 2:30 to 6 p.m. and from 8:15 to 10:30. (The rest of the day is for church.) But they raised a wowsing quibble. Since this vast breach in the law was for soldiers, they wondered whether it would be wowser-fair to let the soldiers' girls in. The girls are civilians...