Word: ah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best friend, waspish Critic Sainte-Beuve, offered her his sympathy, spread the story that he was her lover. Hugo believed his wife innocent but began to get around a little himself. At the rehearsal of one of his plays he noticed that when Actress Juliette Drouet read the line, "Ah, what is it that fills the whole heart?" she turned "her large dark eyes" on him. Soon Victor called at her apartment...
...Finger doing fine. Monkey meat is plenty tough but ah!-the spareribs. Man is a four-dimensional animal because he can project his personality into space by his creative powers. Woman is three-dimensional...
...average 35? (profit ½? a meal). They join the waiters in community singing. During religious songs, blue neon crosses light up the walls. In the Pacific Seas' "rain hut" every 20 minutes diners hear the sound of rain on the roof. At Brookdale visitors hear a recording of Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life and a two-minute sermon on Story of the Redwoods in a tiny chapel...
...Ah, Wilderness! In Enterprise, Ore., three of a crew of four farmhands left a harvesting machine to look for apples, met a bear in the orchard, sped back to find the fourth man beating off a rattlesnake...
...away to the west, Cocky Daniels has run into his first Jap. He told me about it afterwards. He reached for the switch, said to himself: "Ah, at last." But the Zero jumped on Cocky's tail. He pulled up, but his plane stalled. When he came out of it at 4,000 feet he found two Zeroes on his tail. He dove, ending up with the altimeter reading 1,000 feet and doing 500 an hour, hedgehopping and gradually pulling away from the three Japs who had followed him all the way. His exhaust was shooting smoke...