Word: ay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ay, kiss your girl and then forget...
...through barred colonial windows, and reams of brief, impassioned verses, inscribed on linen paper of powder blue and slipped under a door. ("Love! Bitter love! Pursue me no more!") But the chaperons, the sedate hot-chocolate parties and all the genteel elegance of yesteryear are being put to rout. "Ay, chica," cries 1955's blue-jeaned swain as Night and Day booms out of the record-player, "you're sweeter than an ice-cream cone and a blue sky!" The girl's fashionable ponytail bobs happily in acknowledgment...
Married. Evelyn Ay, 21, Miss America of 1954 (who expressed surprise at winning the title because she felt she was too fat "here and there"); and Carl G. Sempier Jr., 23, U.S. Navy ensign and former University of Pennsylvania varsity footballer; in Ephrata...
...their worse ones. In any case, Shield for Murder is memorable only for the work of Emile Meyer, an actor of such massive port and seemingly minute intelligence that his performance may be recognized as the definitive Hollywood attempt to characterize the eternal flatfoot. His best line: "Nayun years ay pre-sink capting. An' dis is duh firs' time I ben pullt inta duh drain...
Bill got bagatelle, but someone spelled cephalic with an "s" someone else tacked an "ay"; to the end of hyperbole, and a third decided that souffle should conclude with "t." By lunchtime only 34 contestants were left...