Word: pooh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George Gershwin, Louis Gruenberg, John Alden Carpenter, most famous of U. S. nationalist composers, have avoided jazz symphonies, contenting themselves with writing rhapsodies, operas, ballets, tone-poems. Loudest pooh-poohing of their efforts has come, not from high-brow critics and musicians, but from swing and hot jazz fans who find this symphonic jazz stiff and imitative...
...normal after the annual slack season which this year was concentrated chiefly in September,* such figures seemed ample reason for extreme good cheer among automobile-makers. Tending their new creations in Manhattan's vast Grand Central Palace (see p. 67), makers almost unanimously anticipated their best year, pooh-poohed Wall Street talk of a major Depression. But, though this week's show in Manhattan marks completion for manufacturers of the crucial business of launching new models, to an equally important segment of the automobile industry-sales and distribution-it is only the beginning. Some 515,000 people...
...some lyrics of his own devising. "I just wouldn't sing them," said Actor Cohan, who is no less famed for his loyalty than for his wide talent, "because they were about personal friends of mine." Actor Cohan's extempore lyrics were not repeated. Co-Author Kaufman pooh-poohed rumors of backstage discord over the incident. Said he smoothly, "Everything is smooth and lovely...
When a London gossip writer mentioned Columnist Dorothy Thompson for the Presidency, newshawks scurried to get her reaction. "Ridiculous," she pooh-poohed. "I'm very much for it," declared Husband Sinclair Lewis, "then I can syndicate a column called...
...they were seized by vigilantes. Parson Williams was given 14 thumping whacks with a mule's belly strap. Then Willie Sue Blagden got four solid clouts. Governor Futrell and the local sheriff protested that the Weems "funeral" was only propaganda, that Frank Weems was still alive, but their pooh-poohing paled beside a published photograph of Willie Sue Blagden exposing a plump thigh bearing a large black & blue mark...