Word: ah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ah," sighed the courageous Queen-Empress, "I have often heard of a bull in a china shop, but I have never seen one there before...
...Ah, Wilderness, by Eugene O'Neill...
...local engineers confronted by King Charles. They could solve their traffic problems and divert traffic from Harvard Square by extending Memorial Drive along the Charles's left bank, but that was too easy. They might well have thrown a bridge across the stream from Gerry's Landing, but that, ah, that was too hard. The bridgebuilders had hydrophobia, a condition unusual in bridgebuilders, and calling for unusual measures. Eureka, they would build the bridge on dry land! Did one but object that such a bridge would not span the river, the masters of the scheme should shake their heads wisely...
...hypothesis of equality which Mr. Lincoln phrased so enchantingly at Gettysburg. But next the halting, all credulous alien is told that in the dark days of our republic, when irate heaven scorned the frontiersman and his libations, a very wicked gargoyle named the spoils system flourished in the land. Ah, alien--when he departed, and the curtains parted, there was Pendleton, kicking the gong around, and civil service reform was born full fledged into the republic. The England its birth was difficult, for all the midwifery of Macaulay and of Gladstone, but England is not the United States. The alien...
Those who like Ah Wilderness! will find it human, kindly, a surely-drawn picture of pre-War home life and a compassionate study of the tribulations of adolescence. Those who do not like it may say that the only reason the play is set in 1906 is to give some actors a chance to wear funny automobile costumes. They will complain that the play is far too long (it has an 8:15 curtain), that nothing happens. Dissenters, however, will be in the minority. At the close of its Manhattan premiere, Ah Wilderness! was cheered to the rafters...