Word: yeah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make "corn liquor." Last week Senator Arthur Capper complained that one of his constituents in Kansas went to a local AAA office, asked for shorts for his hogs. Instead of giving help and sympathy, the young college woman whom AAA had put in charge replied to him: "Oh yeah? What about some step-ins for your cows while...
...know it not as it really was. His entrance caused a momentary hesitation in the smooth Gallic flow of conversation and food, but soon the gentleman on his right asked him what his name was, in French. Considerably surprised, the young man parried with a brilliant, "Oh, Yeah" and turning to the man on his left he queried, "Do you speak Canuck, too?" Professor Morize just gave him a piercing glance...
...Negro dialect has an authentic ring but is stamped with his own mark. In almost every book he introduces some memorable tag of nigger-talk. In Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun it was: "Soap an' water, country boy"- deep South for Broadway's "Oh, yeah?" In Let the Band Play Dixie it is the almost untranslatable "and de doctor can't do me no good"-an expression denoting joyful determination, usually in the direction of gin or gals. For fittingly strong words to express astonishment: "Well, do, my Redeemer!"* Sample of Author Bradford...
...truth! ''Then sing, brethren and sisters." Praise de Lawd. . . . Yeah...
...White Eagle. The difference is that the first stands for National Recovery Administration while mine stands for National Revival Administration. Any doctor will tell you that you can't have recovery without revival. The same is true of our country.'' The audience cried "Amen'; and "Yeah, man." When Elder Michaux bellowed that "the Devil is right here in Philadelphia and we are going to get him," they stomped their feet and swung into "Happy...