Word: poohed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bruno Seltzski's house on the grounds he had not paid his taxes. When he refused to open his safe, they had closed it with official seals. When they returned, they found that Seltzski had blandly broken the seals, emptied his safe. Though he was arrested, Army men pooh-poohed the talk, reluctant to embarrass one another, friendly Czechoslovakia and potent Skoda...
...Pooh-poohed Northwestern's President Walter Dill Scott: "I have no fear for the real patriotism of Northwestern students. Of course, in peace times they do a lot of altruistic talking, but if a war should come we would find them just as loyal as they were in the last conflict...
...believe that the study of Greek and Latin is largely a waste of time, at all events for the average student." H. L. Mencken, famous American writer and critic, told a CRIMSON reporter recently. Mencken, one of the greatest living authorities on the English language, has for many years pooh-poohed the importance of the classics as a background for the correct use of the English tongue...
...Preparatory Unemployment Conference. Their goal : a 40-hr. work week treaty for all the world. Labor's delegates demanded a cut in working time without a proportionate decrease in wages. Capital's delegates stood firmly for a wage cut to offset increased production costs. Britain pooh-poohed "this phantom of a 40-hour convention" whereas Germany warned that the alternative was government doles for years without end. It was estimated that the world is already spending $120,000,000,000 per year to keep its jobless alive...
...Mexican Government circles El Universal Grafico's "warning" was pooh-poohed, but U. S. residents of Mexico City called it significant, a timely echo of popular Mexican fears...