Word: pooh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...garrulous stunter, Dr. Brock is reticent, conservative, not fond of publicity. Wealthy at 45, he pooh-poohs the suggestion that he has demonstrated the safety & dependability of aviation, likes to say: "I've done it because I get a kick out of it. I just got in the habit of flying every day and I haven't quit. When I get tired of it, I'll drop...
Last week Governor Eccles stepped to the stage front to pooh-pooh any radical impressions his Senate testimony may have created. "I have certainly, for instance, never advocated the redistribution of wealth," he said. "That is perfectly impossible under the capitalistic system...
...Paris palpitating politicians pooh-poohed rumors that if Great Little Gaston is defeated and makes good his threat to retire to his estate, outraged citizens will again bloody the Place de la Concorde...
...they numbered 1,000. And Upton Sinclair found himself a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor. "I found I was not getting anywhere as a Socialist," explained he, "and so I decided to try to make progress with one of the two old parties." The regular Democratic machine pooh-poohed Candidate Sinclair as a theoretical novice. Theoretical he was, but no novice; in the past 28 years he has run for Congressman in New Jersey, for Congressman, Senator and Governor in California. He has a face that looks like Henry Ford gone slightly fey, a pleasing voice, a wide...
...high executive positions men "able to command the confidence not only of bankers but of the public at large." Last week with the annual ABA convention but a month away, the Hecht opposition again broke into the open. Manhattan bankers, who are supposed to be opposition leaders, politely pooh-poohed such talk, but Banker Hecht felt obliged to state: "I will accede to the presidency. ... I have no intention of withdrawing...