Word: pooh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...original issue. The really noteworthy thing about this trend to yesterday's best-sellers is that, with the exception of the popularity of certain novels in the new Bonibooks series, the undergraduates' interest seems for the most part focused on non-fiction books that are unually pooh-poohed in academic circles. Such old standbys as Wells' "Outline of History" and Durant's "Story of Philosophy" still stand near the top of the list, although Dimnet's "Art of Thinking" is at the moment the outstanding reprint success in Cambridge...
...Author Milne has never been in the U. S. Slim, fair, he has "one wife, one son, one house, one recreation?golf." He smokes a pipe. He is tired of being known as "whimsical." Other books: The Red House Mystery, The Day's Play, The Holiday Round, Wirmie-the-Pooh, Now We Are Six, The House at Pooh Corner...
...potent a reducer of banks as mergers and failures, was sung last week to the House Committee on Banking & Currency by Charles Edwin Mitchell of National City. The small bank, he maintained, is more efficient as part of an ably directed system than as an independent unit. He pooh-poohed the bogey of a financial octopus with: "Banking is not a business which can be monopolized...
...Wappingers Falls, N. Y., a man ordered Judd Schmidt to move his motor car from a restricted parking area. "Where d'y' get your authority?" demanded Mr. Judd. The man displayed a gold badge. Scoffed Mr. Judd: "Pooh, pooh, you're only a fireman." The badged man was Mayor John Flood of Wappingers Falls, who forthwith arrested contemptuous Mr. Judd...
...friend he is. He wanted to take the floor to denounce "General" Brown for carrying on a subterranean vice-presidential campaign. But Mr. Curtis dissuaded him. The Vice President let it be known through his friends that he would not lift a finger for renomination. "General" Brown's friends pooh-poohed the Brookhart yarns, insisted Mr. Brown would not take the Vice-Presidency nomination if it were offered...