Word: poohed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...incognito King (George Grossmith) comes to the inn, is ah'd and curtseyed at, recognizes Headwaiter Howard as an old friend. Howard explains his own incognito which the King respects, inviting him to dinner, establishing him as at least a prince. The girl, as girl to prince, now pooh-poohs social distinctions. Howard agrees but, as headwaiter to girl, he dares not undeceive her. They part. The benevolent King brings them together again in Leslie Howard's hotel dining-room where, as heiress to headwaiter, she snubs him unhappily until the headwaiter vanishes and discloses...
Another college without a president is the University of Virginia. Another president of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Newton Diehl Baker (whom Princeton's Morris succeeded), lately pooh-poohed the suggestion that he had been offered the Virginia post occupied by Dean John Lloyd Newcomb since the death of Edwin Anderson Alderman last year. Last week Virginia was apparently no nearer than Princeton to finding...
...occasionally affected with mercy for the Englishman, whom he loves with a love based on understanding. The Britisher who builds his concrete house first and then bores holes in it for pipes and wiring, who decides to repair a highway on the day before a bank holiday receives no 'pooh-poohing' ridicule at his hands, only honest criticism. But his love does not carry him away to an optimism which will deny the possibility of Britain descending to the status of a lesser power, nor does it inspire him with the sort of Anglophilism which says that the English gentleman...
...point was that laws now obligating the Government to fixed expenditures had to be amended or repealed to reduce Federal functions, effect savings and balance the Budget. His statement that the House had so far made "positive savings" of only $35,000.000 roiled Democrats in that body. Democratic Senators pooh-poohed the Hoover proposal as "just another commission" to postpone definite action. ¶ To Packard Motor Car Co. President Hoover presented the Collier Trophy for its development of a Diesel airplane engine...
...Note--Mr. Sweezy seems to have missed the point of the first CRIMSON editorial to which he refers. In it the CRIMSON did not "pooh-pooh" the whole affair. Rather, it called attention to the seriousness of the question, saying that, although a war involving the United States was as yet not likely, it was from small, smouldering fires like this that great conflagrations came. It then pointed out the dangers of harkening to a jingoistic and militaristic press and of being influenced by the conversational scarist...