Word: poohed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blood & Guts was in Dutch again. Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr., Military Governor of Bavaria, had made a fool of himself and had reflected on the whole U.S. Army by holding a press conference and pooh-poohing efforts to rid Germany of Nazis (TIME...
Last week WWJ celebrated its 25th anniversary, and reasserted its claim to being the world's first commercial radio station. That claim used to be pooh-poohed by Pittsburgh's powerful KDKA. This year the National Association of Broadcasters finally decided the question in WWJ's favor; KDKA, it said, was ten and a half weeks younger...
...begin work on their 28th picture for Paramount, a bodily-harm thriller called Hot Cargo. If their formula holds, it will be shot in the usual time of twelve twelve-hour days, should earn some $378,000 for Paramount, $97,000 for Pine & Thomas. Hollywood's artists will pooh-pooh it. But the customers will...
...front-page news-play to clients for guidance. Some of Van Anda's news decisions are classic: he took a one-paragraph report that the steamship Titanic was in trouble, expanded it into columns of type-while other Manhattan papers played the story down, and at least one pooh-poohed the whole thing because the Titanic was "unsinkable." Van Anda perceived that General Ludendorffs big offensive on March 21, 1918 was the beginning of the end, and angled the Times story that way; other editors treated it at first as just another battle...
...scholarly catalogue to go with his show, Director Gordon Washburn caused a few lifted eyebrows by flatly asserting his own preference for the independent U.S. artists of the past. He also pooh-poohed tradition by insisting that the best of Copley, Stuart and Trumbull was their early work - before British influence affected them...