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...toward cleanliness that, says the author, St. Agnes was canonized for flatly refusing ever to bathe at all. Hot bathwater was still considered effeminate in the early 19th Century: when Queen Victoria ascended the throne, Buckingham Palace contained not one tub, and the master of a great English college pooh-poohed a proposal to provide baths for the student body, with the words: "These young men are with us only for eight weeks at a time...
While agreeing with the President's principle, the British did not like his blunt oversimplification. Moscow's Pravda pooh-poohed talk of limited national sovereignty or abolition of big-power vetoes, reiterated Russian belief that the future of UNO depends on "unanimity of the great powers in passing on the most important resolutions." Pravda, however, displayed no doubt of essential Big Three collaboration. Neither did Harry Truman. Asked if he shared the fear that Russian failure to cooperate would lead to war, the President unhesitatingly said he did not think so, added that he would discuss the matter...
...Zinn pooh-poohed the system, too, until his own wife and mother-in-law, who had arthritis, were helped by Father Aull. Then he began to make careful before-&-after bone and blood checkups on other Aull patients. Finally he was convinced. Dr. Zinn bought 14 chlorine machines, hired the abandoned Bank of Tombstone building...
...pigeons "a nuisance." Result: Chicago may kill its pigeons soon; Buffalo will begin at once to trap its birds, eat them or let the A.S.P.C.A. get rid of them. But an advisory committee headed by Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, has pooh-poohed the pigeon menace: "There is not sufficient. . . evidence . . . to warrant an indiscriminate elimination. . . . There is good evidence that only a small percentage of [human] infection is definitely related to ... birds...
...Blood & Guts was in Dutch again. Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr., Military Governor of Bavaria, had made a fool of himself and had reflected on the whole U.S. Army by holding a press conference and pooh-poohing efforts to rid Germany of Nazis (TIME...