Word: ja
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Derived from the French "oui," the German "ja...
...Navy Grand Admiral Erich Raeder; Colonel General Wilhelm Keitel, chief of the German Armed Forces, and, most important of all, Air Minister Hermann Göring. He sported a row of shining medals on his resplendent braided uniform, and was flanked by his trusted adjutant general of fliers and ja-man, Major General Karl Bodenschatz...
...sampling generously the whipped cream, cake and beer, and holding a prolonged conference with His Excellency the Ambassador (the Italian Ambassador was the party's wallflower), Field Marshal Göring allowed himself to be cornered by foreign newsmen and interviewed on the U. S. embargo repeal. While Ja-man Bodenschatz chimed in with Nazi amens to his chief's words, the correspondents put these questions and Göring gave these answers...
Bodenschatz: Ja, very serious...
Next day in the women's final, U. S. No. 1 Alice Marble, after drubbing Poland's Ja-Ja Jedrzejowska and Denmark's Hilda Krahwinkel Sperling, defeated England's Kay Stammers, 6-2, 6-0, with the most brilliant tennis of the whole tournament. While 18,000 excited spectators compared Miss Marble to the late great Suzanne Lenglen, the new champion came back to the centre court to win the women's doubles (with Sarah Palfrey Fabyan) and the mixed doubles (with Bobby Riggs). Riggs & Cooke took the men's doubles to make...