Word: ah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mature himself makes the kindest possible remark about the show: "We're human." Retorts an M.P.: "Ah, stop bragging...
...long been a cardinal principle of the Raj that Hindu-Moslem agreement is necessary before independence can be granted to India. No one has worked harder for such agreement than C. R., a Hindu and member of the Indian National Congress party. Recently he interviewed Moslem League President Mohammed AH Jinnah, felt that the results of their conversation should be reported to the Congress party's imprisoned Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Last week C. R., in white robes and sandals, his sunglasses on his aquiline nose, called on the Viceroy of India, Lord Linlithgow, and asked permission to see Gandhi...
...says Author Scott. Stalin and Molotov went personally to the Moscow station to say farewell to the Jap signers. This joy had been celebrated in too much vodka. "Stalin went up to the aged and diminutive Japanese Ambassador General, punched him rather hard on the shoulder with an 'ah ... ha'. . . . The Japanese Military Attache staggered up to the dapper and fastidious . . . Soviet Chief of Protocol and slapped him on the back. Matsuoka got the giggles and thought that the whole business was 'a genuine expression of Soviet friendship...
During the '20s, Cohan produced and acted in The Tavern and The Song and Dance Man, a title which became Cohan's favorite description for himself. He shone again in the '30s as the father-in Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! and in I'd Rather Be Right, in which he impersonated Franklin Roosevelt. When he went to the White House in 1940 to receive a medal, the President greeted him with: "Well, how's my double...
French Omelette. After two years under German rule the French remembered Voltaire: "Ah, how wretched men have been, and how much to be pitied; and they were wretched only because they were cowards and fools...