Word: poohed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pious votes through the Good Neighbor League of Dr. Stanley High, who issued 60,000 copies of The Social Ideals of the Churches and the Social Program of the Government (TIME, June 1). The Rev. Dr. Walter Wofford Tucker Duncan of Cleveland's Lakewood Methodist Episcopal Church, promptly pooh-poohed Dr. High as a New Deal hireling. Church Management, pastors' trade journal, criticized the Good Neighbor League for its silence regarding the New Deal's liquor, disarmament and college military training policies. The League moved its headquarters from Washington to Manhattan, where it began publicizing its activities...
...Quick to pooh-pooh the furor over the Earle assault was Arkansas' tobacco-chewing Governor Junius Marion Futrell. Negro Weems's "funeral," he sputtered, was only strike propaganda. Negro Weems, he had been informed, was still alive. Though he failed to produce the missing Negro, Sheriff Howard Curlin of Crittenden County nodded corroboration. Some even suspected that Miss Blagden's beating might be a hoax. To prove her story she pulled up her skirts for Memphis photographers. To Arkansas. Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings sped Sam E. Whitaker to "investigate" the sharecroppers' plight, although Mr. Whitaker...
...Governor George Howard Earle buzzed about alone in his own autogiro to complete the 50 hours of solo flying necessary for a license. As he landed, he put on the brakes too hard, cracked up in a somersault which ruined his plane, soaked him in gasoline, bruised his hand. Pooh-poohing the injury, he hustled off to a banquet, remarked: "I am used to getting hurt. In 20 years of polo-playing I was knocked out 15 times and sometimes for long periods. I got a fractured skull, a broken back and other injuries, and a little thing like this...
HERE are three books on war that are eminently worth reading. They are varied in tone and content but the philosophy behind them all is the same. They are written (respectively) by a famous English whimsicalist, creator of "Winnie the Pooh"; a not so well-known Irish satirist; and a senior at Princeton University who is National Commander of the Veterans of Future Wars. The latter two are extremely witty and amusing, the first is inexorably logical and serious...
...accepted was that the death last fortnight of his brother Arthur (TIME, May 25), preceded by the recent deaths of his nephew and sister, made him anxious to get back to his family and the potent family firm of Lehman Brothers. Whatever the reason. Democrats made no attempt to pooh-pooh their loss. From 1929 to 1933 as Lieutenant Governor, Herbert Lehman was Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt's "good right arm," performing the duties of Governor for long periods while Mr. Roosevelt was out of the State. Since 1933 he has been President Roosevelt's alter...