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Word: ah (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lord Biskerton, known to his pals as the Biscuit, was son & heir (ah empty title) to the sixth Earl of Hoddesdon. He had red hair, a just discernible mustache, and a determination to die rather than go to work. Biscuit's old school friend Berry Conway, a mere commoner, had faced the facts and taken a job as secretary to Lon don-living U. S. Tycoon T. Paterson Frisby. Frisby talked in barks, luckily be came incoherent when dyspepsia and human folly reduced him to one of his frequent tantrums. Both Biscuit and Berry, dissatisfied with their lot, felt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Biscuit & Berry* | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

...think that deliberately false evidence is but rarely given for the prosecution in criminal cases of anything like a serious nature. The exception to this general statement is to be found in cases where children or girls, and sometimes grown women, give evidence against men charged with-ah-certain offenses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: McCardie On Perjury | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

Thus Britons, Princes and Untouchables will be dealing as a unit with what? Other Indians, primarily inhabitants of so-called "British India," are represented at the Conference by a delegation which, although including some burnt-out firebrands, such as a survivor of the "AH Brothers" faction, is composed of "Indian Liberals" and ''Indian Moderates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Indian Conference | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

...business as only one can come to live and love a business when one makes it a part of his every waking hour?the Multigraph is not a thing of metal, wood and paint; a mere machine sold to some man who can be convinced he should buy it. Ah, no! The Multigraph is a thing of service to the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Graphic Merger | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

...discharged from a music store, raid a dressmaking establishment, and go to Havana looking for kind old men. It is stupid stuff, yet funny. Best line: a horse-racing Colonel (Charles Butterworth), seeing his entry turn around and run the wrong way when a black cat crosses the track: "Ah, the pity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 24, 1930 | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

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