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Franklin Roosevelt kept turning the matter over in his mind. On Pan American Day he made a little impromptu speech to the Governing Board of the Pah American Union. Said...
...viola is in nature an undersized pansy. In art it is an oversized violin with a tubby, whiskey-contralto voice. Except for low-moaning the inner voices of symphonies and string quartets, it is not good for much. Most of the time it merely plays pah to the cello's oom. Most of the people who pull horsehair bows over its goatgut strings are ex-violinists who failed to make the grade...
...Shoshone-Bannock Indians in Blackfoot, Ida. conferred tribal citizenship upon Quot-jasonah-ah ("Buffalo Horns" -better known as Clarence A. B^ottolf-sen) and Pah-zy-tse-ze-yak Kap-je-tah ("Heap Big Potato Chief"-better known as Lewis O. Barrows), the Governors of Idaho and Maine...
Branching into elementary zoology Gillman informed the court that an ahu was a Central Asian gazelle, an ani a Brazilian variety of the keel-billed cuckoo. No slang, he insisted, was pah, which meant "bah, faugh, fudge...
...Cragen. Vigorously Plaintiff Gillman challenged the findings of Contest Judges Walter K. Van Olinda and Andrew J. Davis, both of whom had a hand in preparing the Funk & Wagnall's New Standard Dictionary. The courtroom rang for a fortnight with such words as: aha, ama, hep, aim, ani, pah. Aha, said Plaintiff Gillman, was either a sunken fence a religious service, or an exclamation. Ama was a wine vessel used in the early Christian Church, also a medical term for "an enlargement of the semicircular canal of the internal ear." Quoted from George Eliot's Daniel Deronda...