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Word: wah (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Elizabeth, N. J., Sang Wah, laundryman, disappeared. For three weeks frantic customers tried vainly to obtain a total of $1,000 worth of laundry while annoyed policemen, unable to decipher the orange tickets, were unable to decide which laundry was whose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...simply adoahed policemen, the way they went 'stridin' about in brass buttons, and stripes, and an H. Sebastian Gawd sorta air...Ah reckon that's why Ah fell so hard down at the Point...Did Ah fall?...Boy, the lines they shoot down theah would win any ole wah ovah night...Oooooah, did he drop the ball?...and he looks so sweet in his helmet too...Ah'm so sorry, won't out side win now? But you know they simply eat lines up themselves, an Ah mean they do. You just look overcome with admiration at how wonderful they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: One of Wellesley's Representatives From the South Airs Her Views on Army and Harvard--Scorns Brass Buttons | 10/19/1929 | See Source »

...Philippines, which he would like to get, but of Porto Rico. President Hoover, said reports, had asked Porto Ricans how they would like Col. Roosevelt. . . . Last fortnight a cable from Hong Kong to Manhattan said: GREAT LUCK SHOT GIANT PANDA JOINTLY STOP THEODORE ROOSEVELT. A panda, also called wah, is a large dimwitted Asiatic raccoon. The "jointly" in the Roosevelt cablegram referred to the fact that the sender is accompanied by his able brother, Kermit Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: may 20, 1929 | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...Baltimore, Md., in the psychological laboratory of Johns Hopkins University, a priest and several professors, social workers, dog fanciers turned their ears in the direction of Princess Jacqueline, brindle French bulldog, who was reputed to be "able to talk." They asked her to spell. She replied: "Wah the ell, wah the ell." They asked her to sing. She sang sourly. When she spoke, later, it was nearer English than French, nearer dog than English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Ring | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

Captain C S. Hoagland of the visiting touch and go men, was reticent to a fault when interviewed last night. "Wah-Hoo-Wah", was his only reply when queried as to the alleged rumor that his team would appear on skills...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GREEN AND CRIMSON SCRIBES TO MEET IN TOUCH FOOTBALL | 10/21/1927 | See Source »

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