Word: ah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Smithsonian Institution's able Anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka pronounces himself Ah-leesh Hurd-leech...
...burst into the room after an exhilarating dash from Widener, where the books he wanted seemed to mean nothing to the catalogue cards but "Soc Lib," and coasted to a stop in front of an expensive window. As far as the eye could see, the panorama spelled knowledge. "Ah, at home with the Gods of Wisdom." he sighed as the gazed from one end to the other of the second floor of President Conant's house...
Well, he said with an air of finality, that's all the writing. Now stand up and look straight at me. I'm sorry I haven't a better face to look at, but it will have to do. There. Open your mouth, please; don't say "Ah!"; just keep it open, Good! Your eyes seem perfect to me. Now, if you will sign your name three times--here and here and here, we are through...
While a New Yorker's "thoity-thoid street" grates on certain sensitive ears, so does a Southerner's "Ah" for "I." So, let's call the whole thing off. . . . Let the New Englander retain his nasal twang; it adds flavor and color. Let us not have a Civil War about...
Died. Alfred Solman, 69, composer of The Bird on Nellie's Hat, chosen by Eugene O'Neill for Ah, Wilderness! as the type-song of the 20th Century's first decade; and of many other popular barber-shop & rocking-chair melodies; in Manhattan...