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...poet sometimes." After he published his first signed volume of poems, Hours of Idleness, he began to lead the life "of a gay young man of rank," and was so fearful of "doing anything of a nature to lower his character as a gentleman" that he pooh-poohed both his Hours of Idleness and his hours of boxing lessons with...
Jackson, the well-known pugilist." But when Hours was pooh-poohed by the Edinburgh Review, his lordship flew into an ungentlemanly frenzy, swore "to punish them for it." He did so, in the satirical poem English Bards and Scotch Reviewers -the first intimation to Britons that there had risen among them a satirist with a skinning knife sharper than any since Alexander Pope...
Testified his ex-secretary, Mrs. Evelyn Runge: "Mr. Lamb said that while in Russia [in 1936, as a tourist-writer], he attended a Communist school . . . when Earl Browder was there." Lamb pooh-poohs the assertion. A Toledo cement finisher swore that he saw Lamb give money to Lincoln House (the city's Communist headquarters) at its dedication...
Irene Castle Treman McLaughlin Enzinger, famed international dancer of World War I, pooh-poohed Chicago's current rabies epidemic, which is so grave that Illinois authorities have ordered all pet dogs and cats inoculated, all strays destroyed. Not unduly upset by the fact that 313 Chicagoans were bitten in four days last week, Antivivisectionist Castle (long egged on by the Hearst press), wanted pet owners to know that anti-rabies shots "would paralyze the hind legs of dogs." Though claiming to be no "damn fool," Irene, who in more than 25 years of running animal shelters has prided herself...
...Kensington stone. Allegedly found near Kensington, Minn, by Farmer Olof Ohman in 1898, the stone, inscribed in runic characters, tells of a band of Norsemen who wandered to Minnesota in 1362 and presumably died there of Indian-trouble.* Last week Professor (of Germanic languages) Erik Wahlgren of U.C.L.A. pooh-poohed the petrophiles. He had positive proof, he said, that the stone was faked by the late Farmer Ohman...