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Word: huh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whiskered merry-andrew, "It was you and me that tied the bag around Johnny Tenner .... He was a great kid and he sure could beat that drum. . . . I met his girl a while back. She's married to a grocery agent now . . . funny, she should marry a drummer, huh?" The fireman's band played the tune of a bugle-call, "Soupy, soupy, soupy, without a single bean. . . ." Someone was saying: ". . . And we began to think the hard tack was turkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Boys of '98 | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

...hotel in a nightshirt and swallowtail coat, leap on a horse, dash down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol. One Fred Lacey, one-time cowboy, now a bus driver, was hired as the double. Hearing a report that his life was held too dear for riding, Mr. Rogers snorted, "Huh, I may be a bum rider but I figure I'm still man enough to lope down the avenue in my ripe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 12, 1927 | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

...Manhattan, stenographers in the heights of the Trinity Building (21 stories) said one to another: "Huh, he acts crazy. Maybe he's a ghost, I betcha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defendant | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

...singers of blues. There is a heavy tragic skit in which Texas weeps real tears, thanks the audience with honest sobs for their applause. Intimate glimpses of her night club adventure are revealed. "Hello, Sucker, Whaddaya mean ya been overcharged, lemme see that check. Why, ya poor sap! $124, huh! Sucker, you had two tele phone calls. Don't be dumb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jul. 18, 1927 | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

...newsgatherer, sharp of ear, might have imagined he heard snatches of momentous conversation: "Uh-huh. . . .No, peas. . . . Uh? . . .Yes, I guess I will.. . . Vichy, unless we can get White Rock, please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Conference | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

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