Word: ah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half hours in Colgate University's Memorial Chapel at Hamilton. N. Y. It was the first time that a major U. S. college had ever put a jazz band on its official concert course. Colgate made some pretence that the Duke's performance was-ah-cultural. But to 1,450 students, faculty members and townspeople who crowded the chapel, no such excuse was necessary. The audience would have rocked the joint, had not the Colgate Maroon warned beforehand that stamping might jar loose the three-and-a-half-ton ceiling of the chapel...
...hands to his head, exclaimed: "It's like having the hiccups! It jerks! It doesn't knit together! It has bad composition! It looks like the figures are pasted to the wall! It hasn't a flowing line from beginning to end! It. ... It. ... It. ... Ah. now. take Benny Bufano's model. He gave us something. He's selling papers...
Pleasantest dialogue of recent weeks was provided by a colored lady whose husband beat her. "Are you a mother?" inquired Mr. Anthony softly. "Ah is," the lady said. "And have you any children?" "Ah has." "How many, madam?" "Twenty-three...
...letter of gratitude and appreciation. Hurry up and sign your X so you can be on the roll of honor too!" Funniest registrant was a happy-go-lucky darky who was stumped by the requirement to name a person who would always know his address. He . . . finally replied: "Well, ah's got a lady friend who travels with me who usually knows wheah ah's at." Most difficult registrant was a blind fellow who wore dark glasses. I first dreaded asking him: "What color are your eyes?" He laughed good-humoredly, replied, "I don't really...
...country, and couldn't take it?" Colonel (Count) Radziwill, a military refugee, grew angry at this one day. Said he fiercely: ". . . It was not the tanks and bombers. . . . It was the way the Germans used them. They used them in a new way. In a war of movement!" "Ah, mon vieux, comme vous etes naif!" said an old French general. "A war of movement across the dry Polish plains, oui! But through the Ardennes, through the Dutch floods, through the Belgian defenses, through the Maginot . . . c'est ridicule...