Word: pooh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...napping in case Europe again went up in flames, editors from the Atlantic to the Pacific put their biggest blackest headlines over news from Vienna, Rome and Berlin and wrote solemn pieces on the coincidence of dates, the possibilities of conflict. In London the "American War Scare" was loftily pooh-poohed, but repercussions of the Dollfuss murder stirred the Great Powers and set statesmen toiling as they have not toiled in years to keep peace...
...sleep and didn't even think about the injection. I got up this morning at 7:30 o'clock. Breakfast consisted of fruit, ham and eggs and coffee. I got to the office at 9:30 a. m. and began to work. I feel fine. Danger? Pooh, pooh! We won't know for a week or ten days what the reactions...
...Strong of Will: When you see a long figure apparently made of India rubber, and possessed of slightly Katherine Hepburnish tendencies loping easily down the corridor, then you know that the great Pooh Bah of Winsor has passed by . . .Hor favorite garment: an undershirt: probable future occupation: mother...
...Francois de Wendel of the present day is a Pooh-Bah; his connections and directorships would fill a dozen of these pages. He is among other things a director not only of the French but of the German De Wendel companies. But that coincidence does not set forth his true qualities of being a Pooh-Bah. Is Francois de Wendel, President of the Comite des Forges, faced with a financial problem? Then let him consult Francois, de Wendel, Regent of the Banque de France. Is he in need of political support? Francois de Wendel, Member of the Chamber of Deputies...
Died, Winnie the Pooh, 20, friendly Canadian brown bear, model for Alan Alexander Milne's famed book; after a two-year paralysis; in the London...