Word: poohed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stepped New York Financial Consultant John W. Hanes, onetime Under Secretary of the Treasury under Franklin Roosevelt, and chairman of the Tax Foundation, a big-business tax-research group. Witness Hanes declared that present tax laws added up to "foolish and dangerous discrimination against those with managerial ability." Pooh-poohing Government figures, he declared that the Treasury surplus would be large enough to enable the U.S. to have substantial tax cuts and substantial debt reduction, too. What Congress had to do, said Hanes, was to cut federal spending...
...reporters, Admiral Byrd denied that he had asked the U.S. to stake claims in Antarctica, and refused to say whether he would do so now. He politely pooh-poohed its strategic value, either for military operations or for the minerals it contained, but pointed out that the 1,700,000 square miles the expedition had explored would make a wonderful icebox for storing the world's food supplies...
Calm & Slow. In ruling Hummon out, the court had pooh-poohed his contention that it had no jurisdiction in the case. Georgia law, said the court, states plainly that the legislature may elect a governor only when no candidate has a majority. Gene Talmadge and Thompson, elected with him as lieutenant governor,. had had majorities in the November election. Thus, said the court, the legislature had had no legal grounds for electing Hummon, and Thompson, the ex-schoolteacher son of a tenant farmer, had every legal right to the governorship...
Lauritz Melchior, great Dane of the Metropolitan Opera, sang Open the Door, Richard on a Kay Kyser radio show and got a chromatic catcall from the president of the National Association of Schools of Music for "debasing his art." Pooh, retorted jovial Heldentenor Melchior. If the musical stuffed shirts wanted more blatant examples of undignified monkeyshines, he could refresh their memories. Once, he recalled, he sang a hillbilly song on the Fred Allen show; another time, he danced an Apache number in which he impersonated a female who could have mopped up on Briinnhilde...
...clergy in general he was shy and suspicious. He also disliked his fellow dramatist William Shakespeare, whose writing he considered "obscure." "What do you think of this passage?" he scornfully asked a Shakespearean enthusiast: " 'I would as lief be thrust through a quicket hedge as cry Pooh to a callow throstle.'" The enthusiast explained: "A great lover of feathered songsters, rather than disturb the little warbler, would prefer to go through a thorny hedge. But I can't for the moment recall the passage." Said Gilbert: "I have just invented it, and jolly good Shakespeare...