Word: poohed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pooh) Milne, speaking of people's reactions to another children's classic, The Wind in the Willows: "You are merely sitting in judgment on yourself. You may be worthy: I don't know. But it is you who are on trial...
Through it all the British made little effort to get a vaccination program going. Only one firm is now making vaccine, and none is yet available. Whatever is produced will go to doctors and nurses. The government pooh-poohs the flu and the Health Ministry offered mostly slogans: "Coughs and sneezes spread diseases-trap the germs in your handkerchief." Jabbed the Daily Herald in reply: "We need some American-style hustle instead of this ministerial sleeping sickness...
...hell are Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, anyway? Merely Nobel Prizewinners who have written sentimental slop . . . And Steinbeck-pooh ! A lowly proletarian who drips grief over his characters. Then there's James Gould Cozzens, awarded the Pulitzer Prize, whose quoted utterances reflect flashes of his own many-faceted snooty character. Sex. "What's a woman for?" "The thing you have to know is yourself; you are people." And so, his stable of characters, I suspect, is a hash-up of his own personality...
...gets out. "At first," said Pound to Il Tempo, "I laughed when the government called Grandpa Ez crazy. But now St. Elizabeths to me is worse than prison. I'm like the Man in the Iron Mask. My mask imprisons my thoughts and smothers my voice." Pooh-poohing the treason charges: "I only met old Muss once, and our conversation pleased neither him nor me. I talked [over the radio] about Roosevelt's follies, but I never said anything against my conscience as an American." On the world mess: "What the politicians have given us is an atrocious...
...Neuberger gallantly suggested that separate but equal "gymnastic and natatorial" facilities be installed in the new Senate Office Building for Maine's Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith. Though barred from using the Senate's all-male gym and swimming pool, Mrs. Smith, only female in the Senate, pooh-poohed the grand idea: "There is no justification for such an expense." ∙∙∙ A federal judge hung two contempt-of-Congress raps on owlish Playwright Arthur Miller for clamming on who else was present at a pro-Communist writers' palaver in 1947. Maximum sentence: a year...