Word: bahs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crimson carpet spilled down the steps of the yellow sandstone Sind Provincial Legislative Assembly Building in Karachi. A turbaned, barefoot Moslem carefully dusted it off, pressed it with an enormous flatiron. All was now ready for the Pooh-Bah of Pakistan, in whose austere person are combined the offices of Governor General, President of the Constituent Assembly and President of the Moslem League. With proper crustiness, Mohamed Ali Jinnah strode up the steps with his sister Fatima. He was wearing a white achkan (long coat), grey fur "Jinnah cap" and a monocle. The small crowd (5,000) shouted "Quaid...
When his jailer (named Simon just like Louis XVI's) came in to tell him that some tomatoes which had long been ripening in the yard outside were at last growing red, the old Marshal turned on him. "Bah," he snapped, "they are blushing with shame...
...want to know who we are, We're the hucksters of radio. . . . . We're vice presidents and clerks, Confidentially, we're all jerks. . . . There was no mistaking the tune. With apologies to Gilbert & Sullivan, Fred Allen, radio's comic Pooh-bah, this week joined the growing ranks of the industry's flagellants with a withering burlesque: The Radio Mikado, written by Allen...
Orson Welles talked like a square peg. "Actually, I don't like publicity," declared the fabulous Poo-Bah of Around the World (see THEATER). "I don't like to be photographed or interviewed. I'm afraid of being misquoted. I'm just a tired sort of male Katharine Hepburn...
...last season's American League home-run king thought he was worth more to the St. Louis Browns than they did. So Vern ("Meat") Stephens packed off to see the nice man in Mexico City who said things like: "Bah! What is money? I have forty, fifty, sixty million...