Word: poohed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John house in Dorset was liberty hall, in which all the liberties were enjoyed by the patriarch painter. Wives, models and mistresses ("Augustus's paintings walked about") shuttled to and fro in various states of concubinage. Pooh-bahs of the literati strutted through the rooms. Nicolette recalls William Butler Yeats as a "Sacred Great Man" revered for his poetry, but also as a ham self-consciously impersonating his own image. T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia) lost his mythological status because of the "cringing, obsequious" way he called Augustus John "Master." Besides, after he bragged to the children that...
...Apologies. In a 2½-hour session in the spacious ranch-house living room, the Governors got some complaints off their chests. Most were irritated that they are neither consulted nor informed about federal programs that affect their states. At the press conference, Johnson pooh-poohed any talk that there was a critical chasm between him and the Governors. But, he added: "We Democrats have never been known to suppress our differences. We do have different viewpoints on different programs. They have made that abundantly clear in their respective states. I made it abundantly clear that...
Naturally the result is flawless. Director Arthur Friedman gives us a Pooh that is moving, tender, light, and at times bursting with social import. Friedman establishes in the course of his entertainment an extraordinary communion with A.A.'s thought patterns; it is as if the man himself were reading his stories aloud...
...Pooh we have the gruff Andrew T. Weil, who plays the part midway between the young Albert Alligator and a zeppelin. Christopher Robin is James Shuman, and vice versa. And Piglet is rendered in a whining monotone not unlike a dog-whistle by the porcine Francine Stone...
...most contentious. He chartered more than 500 new banks, permitted 510 banking mergers, and empowered commercial banks for the first time to get into revenue-bond underwriting, the direct-leasing business and insurance selling. Along the way, he irritated two U.S. Presidents and obstreperously tangled with such Washington Pooh-Bahs as Robert Kennedy, William McChesney Martin, Nicholas Katzenbach, Senator John McClellan and Congressman Wright Patman-as well as leaders of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Independent Bankers Association...