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Word: ah (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yeah?" but "ye-ah?" has lately become a favorite expletive among European diplomats, especially the Germans and the French. Occasional English "yeahs" are beginning to be heard but British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon sticks to "indeed?" Decidedly last week was "Yeah Week" in European diplomatic circles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ye-ah? | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

...smile, "I am not afraid. I am neither Royalist nor Communist. I hope that my son, who is yet unborn, will not become a Communist. Tell my wife I love her dearly and ask pardon for all I have done. I commend myself to the Russian peasantry! Ah Russia, Russia my fatherland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: To the Russian Peasantry . . . | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

...night; the faint whispering echos of listless leather on cold marble pass into infinity, and friendly beacons twinkle from the yard. Freshmen are a strange race characterized by anxiety, pennants, mothers, and rubbers; but they are dear to the Vagabond. The old fellow envies their careless confusion, he,--ah, there it is! Was that a first timid querulous Reinhard from gaunt Matthews? Yes, the world is good, and warm, and friendly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 9/23/1932 | See Source »

...when I mounted the seat and actually took out one of our tandem outfits. . . . When the elevated railroad structures were built it sounded the knell of tandems pulling brewery wagons. It was too much of a trick to guide them in and out around the 'L' pillars. Ah, but there was a sight for you! Those brewery teams were as pretty to see operate as a nicely stepping ball team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 5, 1932 | 9/5/1932 | See Source »

...largest portable outdoor stage lighting equipment ever assembled. They built ten great ramps tilted toward the audience, broke these up into myriad levels. There is a revolving unit 30 ft. high, which last week furnished a mountain pass in Carmen, a monster throne and then a tomb in AH da, the waterfall in Tom-Tom. For the mountain in last week's Die Walküre, nothing less than a real one would do, so Laurence Productions built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cleveland Opera | 7/11/1932 | See Source »

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