Word: bahs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know. "Why," said I, as solemnly as possible, and with the Government mail wagons in mind, "the streets seem to be simply filled with the delivery wagons of this 'George V. Rex.'" After perceptible seconds came shrill laughter, pitying glances and, in rising tones (this verbatim): "Bah Jove . . . hah-hah . . . you know . . . hah-hah . . he means George the Fifth, King of England...
...different world when you people are not here. I go upstairs and read Spinoza's Moral Ethics. There is a book! I also read Aristotle but he is too much like this Franklin Roosevelt. . . . Do you know Goethe? Do you know Spinoza? Can you speak German? Bah! None of you is educated...
...small audience in a small place. The American Mathematical Society and the American Physical Society arranged his lecture for Carnegie Institute of Technology's Little Theatre, seating 400, then nearly came to blows over distribution of tickets. Five thousand pleas for admission poured in. Said Dr. Einstein gently: "Bah! I will speak to 400-no more. No more would understand." His subject: "A Simple Proof of the Equivalence of Mass and Energy...
...Strong of Will: When you see a long figure apparently made of India rubber, and possessed of slightly Katherine Hepburnish tendencies loping easily down the corridor, then you know that the great Pooh Bah of Winsor has passed by . . .Hor favorite garment: an undershirt: probable future occupation: mother...
...Francois de Wendel of the present day is a Pooh-Bah; his connections and directorships would fill a dozen of these pages. He is among other things a director not only of the French but of the German De Wendel companies. But that coincidence does not set forth his true qualities of being a Pooh-Bah. Is Francois de Wendel, President of the Comite des Forges, faced with a financial problem? Then let him consult Francois, de Wendel, Regent of the Banque de France. Is he in need of political support? Francois de Wendel, Member of the Chamber of Deputies...