Word: ay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dear lassie, it is but daffin To had thy wooer up ay niff naffin...
Tarawa Boom-De-Ay. From Brooklyn, N.Y., a radio program publicizing the Marine Corps received an appreciative letter: "I have used the product advertised on your program for years and have been highly satisfied with the results. Keep up the good work...
...York and give Wendell Willkie another chance? . . . He speaks his mind frankly and clearly on matters of public interest and importance. (Ay, there's the rub, he probably does not suit the politicians. But maybe he suits the people.) He has visited and met many of the most important personages of earth-men who will have much to do with shaping the course of events in the next few years, and has won their confidence...
...easy to see what made "Rio Rita" one of the Great Ziegfeld's greatest in the syncopated 'twenties. The production is full of chorus numbers, bright seenery and such well-known songs as "The March of the Rangers." "Ay Ay Ay" and, of course, "Rio Rita." Of these, only the music still contains any real appeal, and coupled with the present popularity of the Latin American subject, gives the revival a "raison d'etre." At tempts to bring the lines up to date enjoy only the mildest of success...
...Fahnestocks could not find what they most wanted: a nose-flute. But Tahitians are distinctive guitar players, and have a trick of chanting double-talk to get in the groove before cutting loose. They also like to take a Western tune and Tahitify it. Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay was one the Fahnestocks gave them; it came cut Ta-ra-ra-bon-si-ay...