Word: ah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been clapped into jail. Mrs. Hardy, not seriously injured, tearfully inquired if he had a comfortable cell, if she might send him his pajamas. Two inspectors hurried out from Paris to take charge of the case and Bonnieres' Police Commissioner washed his hands of the business muttering "Ah, mon Dieu, ces Americains...
...AH KING-Somerset Maugham-Doubleday, Doran...
...conversation of a man who has seen the world and not missed much to the point. Sentimentalists find Maugham cynical, but in fact he is a psychological realist. Even sentimentalists find his common-sense melodramas refreshing after a surfeit of romance. This collection of stories is dedicated to one Ah King, a Onetime Chinese servant of Author Maugham's, who traveled with him for six months, served his master perfectly but inhumanly, surprised him when they said good-bye by shedding tears. The title's only relevance is the fact that Author Maugham thought up these stories while...
...France, own the famed Depeche de Toulouse, most potent French provincial newsorgan. Approvingly the Paris Press recalled that at the London Economic Conference, Delegate-Gourmet Albert Sarraut delivered a ringing speech in which he cried, "The world in this time of Depression is suffering from grave underconsumption of wine. . . . Ah wine: the gift from heaven of the blood of life which has been vouchsafed us in this vale of tears as compensation for our suffering! . . . Assuredly at such a time as this the world should drink more wine...
...should a preacher pronounce "Amen?" A short, brisk "aymen" or a long "ah-men?" Few laymen care, but Rev. Alfred Merrill Eells of Esperance, N. Y. came out flatly last week against what he called "ahhhhhhmen." In The Presbyterian he declared that it is an imitation, taken by the Methodists from the Episcopalians who took it from the Roman Catholics. Wrote Presbyterian Eells: "It gives the impression of affectation. ........It is contrary to devotional custom. . . . It is ant-Scriptural. . . . Christ never used it, the Apostles never used it, and the New Testament Church never used it, . . . God has abundantly answered...