Word: huh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Look's Editor Harlan Logan when he bought a manuscript from Reporter-Author Leland Stowe titled Roy Howard, Newspaper Napoleon. Logan sent it to Scripps-Howard's Howard for checking, got it back with marginal notes that disagreed with Stowe on several points. One Howard comment: "Napoleon, huh? Nap was a little runt and I'm nearly 5 feet 7 inches! He had a cowlick and I still have a pompadour...
Thanks for the extra-special airmail service on the "Invasion" issue. I've heard quite a few fellows comment with something such as, "Damned nice of them, huh?" Certainly such extra services as these constitute one of the factors of TIME'S success formula...
...words to dampen the enthusiasm of any weekender), Mr. Cameron will carol: "A few light, puffy clouds . . . probably clear weather ahead." Another longtime wish which Weather man Cameron has not yet nerved himself to fulfill is to send the newspapers a daily post-mortem along the lines of "Uh huh, we told you it would rain yesterday, and it did," or "We said thunderstorms. Nothing much happened because a high-pressure area acted up at the very last minute...
...sergeant, hmmm? Do you have trouble being recognized at night? Do your men ignore you in the dark, huh, Sarge? See Joe Quartermaster and get your neon sergeant stripes. There's a pushbutton attachment. The slightest pressure and presto, your stripes light up like a Christmas tree...
...Fell out of the window, huh? Must be one-and-a-half, two flights...