Word: ah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lincoln or Christopher Columbus, Hercules or the Count of Monte Cristo. To make these transformations, Tripp employs the simplest form of theater. Aided only by his wife, Ruth Enders, and two other permanent cast members, he has staged convincing battles between armies of Crusaders and Saracens, as well as AH Baba's capture of the Forty Thieves. Out of some toy boats floating in a washtub he created the Spanish Armada beating its way up the English Channel...
...sleeves and red-eyed with fatigue, marched across a deserted Capitol corridor and pounded on a chamber door. It was long after most Congressmen had gone home. There was a muffled response from inside the room. In a molasses accent, South Carolina's Maybank shouted: "Aw right, we-ah ready." A group of scowling members of the House emerged from the chamber and rejoined a delegation of Senators in another room, there to put their tired heads together again over the provisions of the Defense Production bill-the bill to control the nation's wartime economy...
...Ah ha, now I remember. I made them a year ago ... When [they] suggested 26 talks on music I wasn't enthralled. I said it was impossible to talk for 26 hours on music. It would bore everybody to death. However, I tried a few, and you know they were not quite so completely idiotic as I had thought...
...Utah, Utah," cawed a Brooklyn voice. "What part of Connecticut is Utah?" "Who won the war, who won the war," chanted a troop from Massachusetts, and Georgians replied: "The South did-and do you all want to fight it over?" "Ah, go wire ya mudder...
...That little hole, if the water were allowed to trickle through, would soon be a large one, and a terrible inundation would be the result. Quick as a flash he saw his duty . . . His chubby little finger was thrust in almost before he knew it. The flowing was stopped! "Ah!" he thought, with a chuckle of boyish delight, "the angry waters must stay back now! Haarlem shall not be drowned while I am here...