Word: poohed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's end, when the Dentschland reached Manhattan under its own steam, Captain Karl Steincke pooh-poohed the sabotage talk, left cause-finding to marine fire inspectors. A troublemaker since she was built in Hamburg in 1923, the Deutschland in 1925 collided with the Britisher Martin Carl in the English Channel, same year cracked two other ships in the Elbe, had a mild fire at sea in 1929, and in 1933 stove a hole in the Munson Liner Munargo off the Statue of Liberty in New York...
Suspicious bankers last week still could get no satisfactory explanation for the change from the reserved Reserve, wondered what New Deal financial shenanigans it might foretell. But Reserve officials pooh-poohed such fears, insisted they had discontinued the tabulation because it proved an unsatisfactory way to show the purpose of loans...
While Chandler partisans believed and shuddered, Barkley partisans disbelieved and smirked. Non-Chandler doctors pooh-poohed the poison story. Waiter Berry insisted he had filled the pitcher from the hotel's regular water supply, that no one came near him in the elevator or corridors as he took the pitcher to the Governor's room. Louisville police ridiculed it all. An "ice water guard and food inspector" was appointed to "protect" Senator Barkley. At a big Barkley rally last Week in Louisville, a monster pitcher of ice water was placed on the speaker's table. Interrupting...
Outbidding Italy, England and Finland at the 1936 meeting of the International Olympic Committee, the Japanese succeeded in having the Olympic Games of 1940 allocated to Tokyo to celebrate the 2,600th anniversary of the founding of the Empire. Last week, after the Japanese Government had repeatedly pooh-poohed recurrent rumors that it might abandon the Games because of the "incident" in China and had already voted 15,000,000 yen ($5,000,000) for the construction of an Olympic Village, the Minister of Public Welfare suddenly announced that the Government had withdrawn its support of the 1940 Olympics, asked...
Since the amount of money in circulation has been falling from week to week for five months and since there was no sudden upsurge of business last week, most financial commentators at once concluded that this could mean but one thing, a resumption of hoarding. But Federal Reserve officials pooh-poohed the idea. According to them, one week's rise is insufficient evidence and may be only an accident. More likely explanation, said they, was the fact that sales last week were momentarily stimulated by the approach of Easter. For the week ending March 26 this year, which...