Word: poohed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Serge Prokofieff, famed Russian modernist composer, has a scunner against Boston. Seven years ago, when his Fourth Symphony was premièred there, supercilious Bostonians pooh-poohed it, critics even dared to suggest that it was written in too much of a hurry. Last week blond, lumbering Prokofieff, guest-conducting the Boston Symphony, evened the score. "If the public in Boston cannot understand my serious music," said irate Composer Prokofieff, "I'm going to give them simple things." One of the simple things was his Peter and the Wolf, a musical fairy tale written to teach the various sounds...
...Sugiyama told a committee of the Tokyo Diet fortnight ago that even the versatile Japanese could not fight 450,000,000 Chinese and play games simultaneously; that if the "China incident" continues, it might be best to cancel the 1940 Olympics. Next day the Japanese Olympic organizing committee, pooh-poohing opposition as coming "from a small and not very strong group of extreme Nationalists or Fascists," announced a 5,000,000-yen ($1,450,000) budget for a Tokyo Olympic village. On his way to Cairo, Egypt, where the International Olympic Committee was shortly to convene, Japan's Delegate...
...scientific" tests had been made. A member of the committee, Miss Alice Barrows, the U. S. Office of Education's specialist in school building problems, refused to vote for the report, declared the matter should be studied by disinterested scientists. University of Minnesota's Miles A. Tinker pooh-poohed the tests cited in the report, said his own studies had shown no gain in speed of reading in light stronger than three foot-candles. Meanwhile, Raymond V. Long, Virginia's director of school building, charged that "the study reported by the society has been financed by utility...
Meanwhile the other A. F. of L. group which holds sole bargaining rights for cooks and waitresses protested vigorously against the agitation of the "inside" union within its field and pooh-poohed their assertion that the Harvard association has 200 waitresses in its ranks...
...expurgated versions of Mother Goose and Grimm's Fairy Tales, omits such scary items as the Russian Fairy Tales, Slovenly Peter. For delinquents "above average intelligence" in the "Grades 9-12" group is included James Hilton's Goodbye, Mr. Chips. Typical title for little delinquents: Winnie-the-Pooh; for slightly older ones: Eleanor Roosevelt's When You Grow Up to Vote...