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Harvard's late famed Philosopher-Mathematician Alfred North Whitehead was far from the conventional absent-minded professor, but he did have occasional verbal lapses. One day he was cautioning a student about a theory of logic. "You must take it with a grain of er . . . um ... ah ..." For almost a minute, Whitehead groped for the word, until the student suggested. "Salt. Professor...
...Ah, yes," Whitehead beamed. "I knew it was some chemical...
Marx turned on his microphone, said: "Thank you, ah ... Betsy. We've got your application form here, and we'll let you know if you're selected for one of our shows." The girl turned dejectedly away and was joined by her tense-lipped mother, who slipped a coat over the girl's shoulders and spoke to her in a fierce whisper as they went out the door. The next aspirant, a moon-faced young man, was already at the girl's place before the studio mike. He burst thunderously into the Largo al Factotum...
...Frederick Douglass Junior High . . . we asked an instructor why the corridors and classrooms were scrawled with numerous variations of a single obscene theme. The teacher winced, but replied wryly: 'Oh-ah-it's sort of a school motto here...
...Ah happy happy boughs! that cannot shed Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu; And, happy melodist, unwearied, For ever piping songs for ever new . . . −Ode on a Grecian...