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While a New Yorker's "thoity-thoid street" grates on certain sensitive ears, so does a Southerner's "Ah" for "I." So, let's call the whole thing off. . . . Let the New Englander retain his nasal twang; it adds flavor and color. Let us not have a Civil War about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 6, 1937 | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...Ah! but the hot water felt deliciously soothing to his jangled nerves and tired head, as it cascaded in merry little rivulets off his tousled locks. Perhaps it wasn't such a bad life after all. Dreamily musing and mulling these ideas over in his mind, the Vag reached for a piece of soap, and then began to lather himself. Ah, but maybe he hadn't recovered from last night's revelry as much as he had thought! The soap refused to glide smoothly over his skin, and his epidermic sensory nerves did not react properly to the massaging motion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/26/1937 | See Source »

...Ah hah! Then you fool that the umpiring will be a well-handled job? Performed without fear or favor? No ample scops for improvement, here, or crying need for reform...

Author: By Morgan O. Preston, | Title: Cliche Expert In Milk Street Interview Claims Harvard or Yale May Win | 11/20/1937 | See Source »

That wasn't all. By this time a sizable crowd had collected about the setting and the players in the evening's melodrama. The undergraduate turned to look at this group of staring faces and, with fervor and a clarity of diction reminiscent of Randolph or Gonverneur Morris, cried: "Ah, the peasants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...Century-Fox in September 1936 under a three-picture arrangement for a reputed $1,000,000, after having spent the previous seven years with Samuel Goldwyn and United Artists. He bought his release from the Goldwyn contract when Goldwyn failed to buy Three Men on a Horse for him. AH Baba Goes to Town is his first film under the Twentieth Century-Fox agreement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 1, 1937 | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

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