Word: pooh-pooh
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...begin work on their 28th picture for Paramount, a bodily-harm thriller called Hot Cargo. If their formula holds, it will be shot in the usual time of twelve twelve-hour days, should earn some $378,000 for Paramount, $97,000 for Pine & Thomas. Hollywood's artists will pooh-pooh it. But the customers will...
Gerald Nye's henchmen hurriedly tried to pooh-pooh this. But North Dakota is one state in which Tom Dewey needs little added help. Observers agree it is solidly Republican; the latest Gallup poll showed Tom Dewey leading...
...cunning of Col. Charles R. Apted, who yesterday afternoon vigorously denied that the doors were locked with malice aforethought. According to his statement the doors are always locked by the janitor when no class is scheduled to be held in the hall. Furthermore, he was inclined to pooh-pooh the matter as being a trivial incident...
...next press conference after the Governor-General's departure, the President hastened to pooh-pooh any immediate Peace Plan. His denial quashed rumors that he was going to spring on the world this week (the 20th anniversary of U. S. entry into the War) a proposal for a general disarmament conference. But observers had no doubt that he was still looking for 1) a practical world peace plan; 2) a favorable moment to spring...
Completed last week by the young New Orleans cotton house of Tullis, Craig & Co. was one of the smartest cotton market operations in many a moon. It was not a spectacular coup. Indeed Partner Garner H. Tullis tried to pooh-pooh accumulating gossip with a signed statement: "I wish to state in regard to the so-called operations of our firm in December that the entire story has been greatly exaggerated both in magnitude and effect...