Word: ay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ay, bonito!" roared the marketmen and cut off the dead bull's ears, again just like old times. They sent Antonio Sanchez home with all the cabbages, turnips, beans, he could carry...
...Majesty George the Fifth. King of England. Ireland and Scotland, and Emperor of India." Now then, a few of the kahlege kids thought the title should end up with somethin' grand and splendiferous-someihin' suggestin' the glory of England.-like "tarantara. tarantara, BOOM-de-ay-BOOM-de-ay-BOOM!'' But a old farmer got up in the group an' said, "We all know th' English people is a fine, good-hearted people, an' George V is a real king, an' no mistake, but. drat it all. they is a limit...
...custom. . . . It is ant-Scriptural. . . . Christ never used it, the Apostles never used it, and the New Testament Church never used it, . . . God has abundantly answered the Biblical method of prayer. Is there any evidence that He prefers the recent innovation?" The Oxford and Webster dictionaries give preference to "ay-men," Webster stipulating that when sung it should be "ah." Stemming from the Hebrew through Greek, Latin, French and Old English, "amen" means "truly" or "verily"; "Be it so really!"; "It is so in truth"; "finis." Europeans and Russians all use the same word. Its liturgical use by congregations began...
...room, starts to chant. Coat off, hat on the back of his head, hands on his hips, he sways to the rhythmic rise and fall of his cry. "Hobben-dobben-hobben-dobben-hobben-dobben," is the way it sounds if you have never heard it, "Hobben-dobben, ay-ay-ay-ay -ay -ni -ni -ni -ni-ni-ten-ten-ten-ten-SOLD." By crooks of fingers, nods of heads, distention of nostrils, the buyers make their bids known and slowly the auctioneer sways down the room until every stack is sold or else withdrawn by a farmer who thinks...
Last week in North Carolina the annual "tobacco break" was again taking place. Highways were filled with trucks and wagons, crowds jammed into the warehouses. Their crops reduced by abandoned acreage, drought and insects, the growers were delighted when the chanting did not stop at the "ay-ay-ay'' of eight or the "ni-ni-ni" of nine. Average prices varied from 10? to 13? against 4? to 6? last year. Despite their poor crops, most farmers fared better than in 1931. All the big companies making 15?-packages of cigarets were actively in the market. They hoped...