Word: wah
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...University of Oklahoma Press. He ran the Press like a city room. Instead of waiting for professors to bring him their ponderous research, he went hunting for interesting authors. Once he chased an author across the continent in a plane to get him to write a book. The book. Wah'Kon-Tah, by John Joseph Mathews, was the first from any university press to be chosen a Book-of-the-Month. After he had turned out several best-sellers at Oklahoma, the Princeton University Press nabbed him two years ago. Brandt told Princeton professors how to write readable stuff...
...rather weary of sweet flowahs and twittering buhds; of labuh and neighbuh, wukuhs and fahmuhs, wah and so on; of promises blandly honored in the breach; of lip service to the Constitution; of "liberalism" that purges, stands for Hagues and the Chicago Kellys and for political use of National relief; that cunningly labors to undermine American enterprise while deftly advancing the system of socialism...