Word: bah
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Afterwards he did a strange thing for a Vanderbilt. Ever since a bullet-headed, thick-jowled Vanderbilt stood with arms folded in front of his hearth and said, "The public? Bah! The public be damned . . . ", Vanderbilts have been press-shy. Relentless editors have made the phrase more than a sneer?made is a symbol, like the legend under a carriage crest, of Vanderbilt arrogance from the day of its Staten Island patroonship to the day when a Vanderbilt turnout swerved onto a crowded sidewalk that the fetlocks of its four strawberry roans might not be sullied in a puddle...
...during the War we frequently made the mistake of underestimating the importance of public sentiment as a world factor. If that was a mistake at the zenith of our power, it would have represented nothing less than a crime in our present situation." Fascist Deputy von Graefe bellowed: "Bah! These trick explanations! You are doing parlor tricks...
...United States Senate, alone of all the great deliberative bodies of the earth, has the right to unlimited debate. Deliberative, bah. . . . The Senate passed 100 bills in 100 minutes. Not time to read their titles. And they call it a deliberative body...
...stretch of time would necessarily impose an intolerable burden upon the Chancellor. Moreover, it was pointed out by The New York Times, that, if the Government were forced to resign before a President were elected, Chancellor Luther would be in the same sort of situation as was the Pooh-Bah in Gilbert & Sullivan's famed Mikado, viz: Luther as Chancellor would be obliged to tender his resignation to himself as President and having accepted his own resignation would have to find a successor for himself as Chancellor...
...Daeschner, when he was so gracefully ushered in by Mr. J. Butler Wright, had exclaimed "Pooh!" and spat upon the carpet; if the President, in rejoinder, had ejaculated, "Bah!" and blown his nose with rage, the public would have been none the wiser...