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Word: ah (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...signaled for an encore from more than 400 numbers that he keeps on tap. On opening night the most popular encores were Buttons and Bows and The Surrey with the Fringe on Top; as they always do when they specially like one, the fans replied with long, loud "ah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: With a Broad Ah | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

Greying Arthur Fiedler, 54, has been getting ah-h-h's from Boston and other cities ever since he first organized his open-air Esplanade concerts in 1929 and took over the baton of the Pops the year after. Boston-born, he grew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: With a Broad Ah | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...realm, he has become even more popular with his people than in the old days. His subjects seem to prefer his humanity to his divinity; at baseball games (he recently attended his first-see cut), among workers, wherever he goes, they take inexplicable comfort from his invariable approving remark, "Ah so, ah so." Yet even in their homage of their constitutional monarch the people are confused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: New Door to Asia | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...truly alarming. Lost, she turns up at the local women's club, gardening, or ladies' aid, and thinks of what her children were like a few years ago. And then, on the second Sunday of May, comes Her Day, and with it a box of chocolate brandy delights. Ah, mother love...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mammy! | 5/7/1949 | See Source »

Besides being a notable buzzer, Chuck is a deadpan kidder. In spite of his blue eyes and fair skin, he is likely to assert solemnly that he is one-eighth Cherokee Indian. His parents say: "He's liable to tell you anything." Asked about his birthplace, Chuck says: "Ah come from so far up the holler, they had to pipe daylight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Man in a Hurry | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

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