Word: ha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ha Ha Ha! Mr. Hughes will have a good laugh on this now and Mr. Lewis will get a fine kick out of it, as inspired prophet of coming events. About Mr. Hughes' literary tastes he says: "For the past twenty-four years Mr. Hughes has cultivated Dumas, and knows more about Athos, Porthos, D'Artagnan and Aramis than did the mothers who bore them...
...that only on 21 days in the whole period of observation did the deviation exceed 1.o sec. No intricate mechanical adjustments but a mere pocketful of small change maintains the accuracy of Big Ben.* "Whenever the clock is losing slightly," explained Astronomer Royal Dyson, "we just drop a ha'penny or a penny on a tray fixed about half way down the pendulum. If the clock is gaining, we take the penny out. As it takes a fifth of a second for the booming of Big Ben to reach the street, and two seconds to reach Trafalgar Square...
...indeed to New Yorkers was it to follow the band of masked riders through the Black Hills, into stage coach holdups, battles with the Sioux, robberies, murders, escapes-always with dashing Deadwood Dick as the hero. Heard once more was Deadwood's "wild, sardonic, terrible bloodcurdling laugh-'Ha, Ha, Ha! Arrest Deadwood Dick! Isn't that rich!'" Also his ringing challenge, with the equally deadly Calamity Jane at his side : "'I've got the papers to prove my innocence...
...Guernsey gaffers believe that the cry "Haro!" is an abbreviation of "Ha, Rollo!" an appeal to Rollo, first Duke of Normandy. More probably it comes from Anglo-Saxon licra or hara, an exclamation intended to attract attention. At Irish county fairs hucksters still shout "Aral Aral" when displaying their wares...
...what is happening-is the basic device of this picture as it is of half the good comedies in existence. Just as a Scotsman in a vaudeville joke must be a pinchpenny, so the two Frenchmen who follow a roughneck sailor to pay him the $1,000,000 he ha? won in a lottery are always polite. No matter how much of a hurry they are in they never forget to take their hats off to each other. This may be the kind of thing that has made critics assert that laughter is founded on a sense of superiority...