Word: ah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suddenly thought of the quiet little Italian who never used a score. Toscanini went to the stand in a borrowed frock coat many sizes too big, conducted Aida completely from memory. Lately an aged Brazilian critic attempted to describe the perfection of that performance. Toscanini's comment: "Ah, but he is wrong. I made two mistakes, one in the first act, another in the third...
...Ah, White House priestess...
...program's "Who's Who" when she was given the part of the free-&- easy young woman's mother. The role is that of a Southern matron whose brain is as frivolous as her dress. It is superbly written, and Texan Douglass projects it magnificently. "Ah always was willowy," she reminds her sister, at a time when the chief topic of interest is her daughter's disappearance. "Every time Ah go downtown in Louis ville somebody says : 'There goes Mrs. Effie Rowley. Isn't she willowy!'" She is frightened only by Indians...
...alumnus comments, "Ah ha, so this is the honorable and exalted calling to which our college boys are going nowadays. Let them show their supreme erudition in their manner of approach to our doorsteps on sleepy mornings. Let their footsteps ever be light and their horses well behaved." It might be added, "perhaps this is only a part-time job for a graduate student...
...desire for war. The inhabitants of this vast area, 250,000,000 strong . . . believe in, and propose to follow, the policy of the good neighbor. And they wish with all their heart that the rest of the world might do likewise. "The rest of the world-Ah! There's the rub. . . . The people of the Americas must take cognizance of growing ill will, of marked trends toward aggression, of increasing armaments, of shortening tempers-a situation which has in it many of the elements that lead to the tragedy of general war. ... To say the least, there are grounds...