Word: pooh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sophisticated observers regarded the venture as a freakish experiment, pooh-poohed the idea that a troupe could succeed without women to decorate it. But in less than two years Ted Shawn has made a success. With no capital, he took to the road when times were darkest. In 1933-34 he and his dancers visited 115 cities. This season's record was 125, with sufficient profit for the dancers to go this week to London where they have hired His Majesty's Theatre...
...even before his greater work on the conditioned reflex in dogs. Only Nobelist in the sciences Russia has had for three decades, old Dr. Pavlov does as he pleases, can bark with impunity: "I deplore the destruction of cultural values by illiterate Communists" A government of Communists gently pooh-poohs him, hands him an institute, a pension, endowments...
...Washington the House Patents Committee heard Roy W. Knabenshue, pioneer airshipman, allege that acid had been poured on the late great Macon's girders and guy-wires by the Filipino mess-boy who lost his life in the airship crash. Though Commander Wiley pooh-poohed the suggestion, high Navy officials admitted sabotage was a "distinct possibility...
Journeying up to Birmingham for the week end, Chancellor Chamberlain addressed his family's ever faithful constituents. They could safely ignore, he counseled, ugly rumors that out of the recent ruin of prominent London pepper speculators there would soon erupt a British Stavisky scandal involving financiers and statesmen. Pooh-poohed the Chancellor of the Exchequer: "The pepper crisis has been cleared up, and I don't think there is as much as a sneeze to be heard in the City today...
...April 1933. Since the Los Angeles had been decommissioned year before, she became the only U. S. dirigible left in Naval service. Last spring in flying from California to Florida she broke two small girders in rough air over Texas (TIME, May 21). Even so, her builders and operators pooh-poohed the idea that there was anything structurally wrong with...