Word: poohs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pooh-mar AUTOBIOGRAPHY - A. A. Milne - Dutton...
Last year horrified reports cropped up that liquid oxygen was being used to fill bombs of dreadful killing power. An article in Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Review pooh-poohed this bogey, on the ground that liquid oxygen explosives are so sensitive that they cannot safely be transported from place to place, and that they deteriorate rapidly, losing their explosive power in an hour...
...Glenview, Ill., last week a golf pro named Cyril Wagner, pooh-poohing the failure of a Michigan City colleague to make a hole-in-one after 17 hours of trying the week before, made a locker-room bet ($325 against a brand new automobile) that he could not only make one hole-in-one but two of them within 24 hours. Accompanied by three suitcases of balls, six caddies and two scorekeepers, he took his stance on the 17th tee of the Elmgate Country Club at 8:15 in the evening, began to wham away - at the rate of three...
...Crony Boyles is more active. The Governor's official legal aide and unofficial Pooh-Bah, he not only dispenses legal advice, but sometimes signs State papers in the Dickinson name. Himself and Colleague Moyer he modestly characterizes as "just a couple of fellows hanging on to the public tit." Other Dickinson indispensables include: smooth, young Secretary Leslie Butler-who siphons callers so carefully into his master's office that the Detroit Citizens' League once complained: "Honest citizens can't get in" -and Personal Secretary Margaret Shaw, whom, the Governor says, God sent him. ("I know there...
...much of the time Behrman handles it with adroitness and wit. The trouble is that Behrman, a Frederick Lonsdale who reads The New Republic, too often makes sex a mere come-on for ideas, none of which he accepts. He is a kind of ideological window-shopper; or, like Pooh-Bah, a Leader of the Opposition, he feels he must resist what he approves of as First Lord of the Treasury...