Word: ah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would think he was a farmer who had come to the village to sell his produce. One of his favorite jokes on meeting a person is to say, "What a lovely neck." I will never forget the shudder that went over me when he told me: "Ah, you are a large man, you would drop nicely." He told me one time that he was taught the trade by his father, who hanged himself when he became too old to enjoy life, and that he [Pierrepoint] would some day do the same himself...
...Ah! your head, reader? What recent gains in sensibility have you to register? Do you read or think as much as you used to? You are aware no doubt that your consumption of tobacco and alcohol has practically doubled . . . you will plank down three quid for a bottle of Scotch, you can't be trusted with a railway towel or a piece of hotel soap . . . and [you] write to the Times against Picasso; you're more antiSemitic, even, than before...
...good chess player makes the smallest move count. Last week Pope Pius XII chose the seventh anniversary of his coronation to throw a well-timed spotlight on an important new red hat. The hat belongs to soft-voiced, fierce-bearded Gregory Peter XV Agagianian (pronounced ah-gah-jahn-yan), Patriarch-Catholicos of Cilicia of the Armenians, who stayed over in Rome at the Pope's request to celebrate Solemn Pontifical Mass in the Sistine Chapel...
...riding on buses all day and singing all night." He is a Catholic, like Sinatra and Crosby, but is less apt to break into Ave Maria. Something like the new nonsense song, One-zy, Two-zy I Love You-zy, is more his style. He sometimes sings Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life to win the old folks, but in general he's a bobby-soxer's man, who gets screamed at. Says he: "If you don't like it you wouldn't be human. If they stopped you'd wonder what the hell happened...
...again. At a home for war sufferers he was visibly moved as he guided his pointed tan shoes from dingy room to dingy room. He spotted a soldier with a wooden leg, addressed the man's wife: "Where did your husband get wounded?" "The Philippines," answered the woman. "Ah so," said the Emperor. "In the Philippines. Ah so. You have children. I'm sorry. This place is rather cold. But it will become warmer. I hope you will cheer up." The woman bawled. Embarrassed, Hirohito darted...