Word: bahs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hotel, the Cavendish was no place for the unsuspecting tourist. Most strangers who ventured into the dim, cluttered lobby at 82 Jermyn Street were sternly told to try elsewhere. Others, if they were lucky enough to remind the proprietress of some long-vanished Victorian buck or Bostonian pooh-bah, would be clasped to her shapely bosom and regaled with surrealistic reminiscences about old Lord Droopy Drawers and Lady You-Know-'Oo, or "the time we went to Ireland on roller skates...
...Trenton laborer, he skipped high school baseball because "you had to be a hot dog to play on our team at Trenton. I couldn't go for that 'yes sir, no sir' bit or all that 'win for the old red-and-black, sis, boom, bah.' " After working two years in an overall factory and playing sandlot ball on the side, Bo grabbed a pitching job with the Class D. Brunswick, Ga., Pirates, a Pittsburgh farm club. The pay: $185 a month. "A ridiculously low price," he says. "But I was looking for some place...
...Bah! Bah! Bah...
Dismayed I am, however, that the author found such unrelieved monosyllabic expressions being voiced by Santas, shopkeepers and civilians as "Ooops!" "Oof!" "Ho! Ho! Ho!" "Bah!" and even "Aughh!" I wonder if TIME'S reporter paused long enough in any store to listen for a seasonal "Excuse me, please" or a polysyllabic "I certainly appreciate your waiting, madam!" as I did on more than one occasion...
...Haah?" grunted shoppers as they pounded their way into thickening throngs that filled the stores. "Ooops!" they said, and "Oof!" "Aughh!" and sometimes "Bah!" and sometimes "Oooh...