Word: poohs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...usual when the golden tide laps high on U. S. shores, reporters went to see Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau. As usual, he pooh-poohed the idea of inflation. But though he said the gold was not affecting U. S. economy, it was amply clear that the continued European crisis was. Markets were nervous. Businessmen cut their buying for the future so low that three new indexes of inventories published by the National Industrial Conference Board touched the lowest point since May 1937. Most cheerful fact of the week (to businessmen): the sales ratio of twin beds to double beds...
...Sultan; a guinea pig named Winnie-the-Pooh; two garter snakes, Becky Sharp and Thackeray; two four-and five-foot pilot black snakes, Pythagoras and Snookie; an adolescent alligator, John Lewis; Mrs. Hughes-Hallett's mother and two bubbling, healthy children, Son David (now at Cambridge) and Daughter Kathleen (an Olympic-team fencer...
Excavator Sachen also carried the big news to Mercy Hospital. But the doctors, not so receptive as the reporters, pooh-poohed the Kickapoo, sent Sachen home to his digging. Vermifuges are fine for dogs, they said, but the drugs they contain will not cure anemia and epilepsy. They doubted that Mylon had swallowed the marbles, or if he had, that they had remained in his stomach for five years. Small, hard objects are usually passed off within a day or two, explained patient Dr. Donnelly, as she ordered another bottle of slow, safe iron compound for still anemic Mylon...
...succeeded in getting published a manifesto entitled "The Pragmatic and the Dogmatic Spirit in Physics" (TIME, May 23). In this he declared that the Jews-e. g., Einstein-have always tended to be theorists and dogmatists in science, that their influence is evil. The editors of 'Nature pooh-poohed this tirade, but printed it for the scrutiny of scientists in free countries...
Alan G. Slocombe '42, author of the cryptic "biting over the telephone" phrase, pooh-poohed the idea that Miss Arnold had been frightened. "I growled at her and I guess she was just being coy," he claimed...