Word: aha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Court before Referee John M. Cragen. Vigorously Plaintiff Gillman challenged the findings of Contest Judges Walter K. Van Olinda and Andrew J. Davis, both of whom had a hand in preparing the Funk & Wagnall's New Standard Dictionary. The courtroom rang for a fortnight with such words as: aha, ama, hep, aim, ani, pah. Aha, said Plaintiff Gillman, was either a sunken fence a religious service, or an exclamation. Ama was a wine vessel used in the early Christian Church, also a medical term for "an enlargement of the semicircular canal of the internal ear." Quoted from George Eliot...
...Marin, whose mustache is not enormous, had worked himself into a fury while the huge-mustached Foreign Minister sat placidly dozing in his Chamber chair. "Aha!" cried M. Marin after one of his sallies, "I see the Foreign Minister smiling in his mustache...