Word: ah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voice quavered, and his lean finger pointed toward the skylight as he talked of the Constitution. Nothing else would sway John Rankin. "When my conscience is clear . . . I am not afraid of all the forces of evil, everything from Drew Pearson to PM and back to Wendell Will-ah, Walter Winchell." He closed by reciting the whole of Invictus, and as he came to the final "I am the captain of my soul" his voice dropped to the stentorian stage whisper of the ancient ham actor. As he trudged up the aisle to his seat, with the conscious humility...
...delivery he grunts ("and-ah"), gropes for the next phrase, glares at his notes (if he is using them at all), peers pugnaciously over his big-rimmed spectacles, often (if he is not holding notes) thumbs his lapels. He rarely smiles; when he is amused the usual sign is a conspiratorial twinkling of his eyes. Usually, it is only after he is done that there can be an accurate written version. Whether heard or read, that version usually is a work of statesman...
...returned to the U.S. with 50,000 ft. of film, campaign ribbons, and the Air Medal (for five combat missions). But his anonymity was gone. When the War Department arranged a press conference, stenographers lined Pentagon Building corridors six deep to watch him walk by. They chattered and oh-ah'd: "He's marvelous . . . isn't he smooth...
...port of Taranto, after the British occupied it last week, a correspondent asked an Italian merchant-marine captain and an Italian army lieutenant what they thought of their Government's surrender. "Ah," said the lieutenant, "we had not heard of that...
...Freshman walks into a barber shop and sits down for a leisurely haircut. "Is you wanna shev" says barber. Ah, small talk, thinks Freshman, and mumbles "Oh sure, sure." "Mepsbe you wanna shempa" queries barber, but the Freshman still in his rut says "Oh sure" again. And so it goes until suddenly the poor boy is immersed in towels scalded scorched and burned. His proud growth of youthful fuzzies is severed from its loving owner...