Word: uh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rabbit arrived in Manhattan, a lanky fellow with lean, muscular legs, a squirrel's face and an antelope's lope. Like most Swedish trackmen he was in sad need of a haircut. He knew a little English but said he had already learned the "Indian language" (uh-uh; uh-huh; huh). He knew all about U.S. jazz (he plays the piano, violin and banjo by ear). In Manhattan, Strand listened to Swingdom's blind piano player Art Tatum, his favorite, then went off reluctantly to California. But the Swedish speedster, a printer by trade, did not forget...
...Golly, we didn't realize our own strength. . . . There is no telling what the Japanese might do if we were to provoke them editorially. They might even-oops, there we go again. Well, as we were saying, Mr. Price, the Far Eastern situation is fraught with interest, and, uh-er-pregnant with possibilities and, so far as the home-front situation is concerned, it's the very devil of a job to publish a newspaper in the face of censorship inanities...
Murvyn Vye, "Oklahoma" alumnus, playing the villainous Jigger Craigin, stands alone from a cast of over 50 as the one realistic and well done character. From insults, "If thar's one thing uh can't stand . . . it's a common woman," to passionate lovemaking, "I'd swim through a sea o' beer for you . . . wit' me mout closed," Vye turns in the outstanding job of the entire performance...
...club days. "Fellows like you," he bumbles, "you never would have made it in a thousand years." In Radio, a husband slaps his wife, tells her he has discovered her infidelities, and that he can hit her "as much as I want to, because, Baby, you're stuck." ("Uh-huh," she says, "I'm stuck.") In The King of the Desert, two wise cracking pansies torment a stolid football player in a Hollywood bar until he knocks one of them out ("We'll fix you in Holly wood, Mister...
Sample sentence from the test: "Again he mused, 'These laryngeal effulgences, I suppose, are the sine qua non of ethereal broadcasting.'" The NBC versions of key words: uh GEN; myoozd; luh RIN ji'l; i FUHL j'n s'z; suh POZ (not spoz); SI nee kwa NAHN; i THIER i'l; BRAWD kasting...