Word: ah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much as usual (Said he afterward: "I didn't have so much time to talk. But I talked to him a couple of times. Once I says to him: 'Joe, you're in for a tough night.' And Joe, he says to me: 'Ah knows ah...
...mother's birth city of Rochester, I hold a latch-key to American hearts. . . . What is the explanation of the enslavement of Europe by the German Nazi regime? . . . There was no unity. . . . The nations were pulled down one by one. ... Is this tragedy to repeat itself once more? Ah, no. . . . United we stand, divided we fall...
...sung by a clown: Which way does a young man start when a young man's heart has a well-known dart stuck away down low? Which way does a young girl turn when her arms both yearn and her lips both burn with a well-known glow? Ah, lackaday, how do I say to you which way they go? This week Composer Bennett performs a clarinet concerto dedicated to Benny Goodman, who once played under him in a theatre orchestra. Next week: repetition of an earlier "music-box opera," based on the ballad Clementine. The week after...
...shaped the speech ... of the perpetual liberalism of Europe." In passing, Ortega y Gasset contributes to a minor but diverting branch of literature-anecdotes about inspired, rhetorical, self-important Novelist Victor Hugo. At his jubilee, Hugo was receiving the foreign representatives. To each he would murmur: "The English representative-ah, Shakespeare!" or "The Spanish representative-ah, Cervantes!" When the representative of Mesopotamia was announced, Hugo was stumped, since there have been no writers of note in Mesopotamia since the dawn of human history. But Hugo quickly recovered his poise. "Mesopotamia," he murmured to his guest,-ah, mankind...
...were arrested and sent on to Khabarovsk, where they were told the GPU would determine their status. At Khabarovsk another official asked them: "Who is your father?" Said Peter: "He is a farmer. He owns 160 acres, 38 hogs, some farm machinery, four horses, and 15 head of cattle." "Ah, ha!" said the prosecutor. "Your father is a kulak." So Peter and John Stevens were thrown into a nice, new Soviet prison, six stories tall, and tried for espionage...