Word: poohs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Readers who know A. A. Milne as the creator of whimsical juveniles and endearing animals (The House at Pooh Corner; Now We Are Six) are likely to be rocked back on their heels when they open Chloe Marr, Author Milne's first novel for adults in 13 years...
Heroine Chloe ("The One Woman, with all London at her feet") is as far removed from Winnie-the-Pooh as Amber is from Little Eva. Her beauty, writes Milne, who is now a frosty and vigorous 64, "was beauty triumphant; alive, challenging, insistent; a brilliant attack on the sex of every man." From the instant of her awakening (around noon) to the moment when her gorgeous form slides between the sheets once more (6 a.m., usually), Chloe's boudoir rings with the anguished moans of a slew of infatuated males, ranging from struggling artists to doddering peers, and mostly...
...Board Chairman Charles B. Henderson had pooh-poohed most of this. Said he: "GAO does not show that the Government has suffered any loss whatsoever. . . ." But the House committee admonished RFC to follow Warren's recommendations, which include a complete overhaul of its accounting system and the appointment of a comptroller to see that the system works...
Negroes who pass are seldom detected; there are no telltale Negroid features that a generous mixture of Caucasian genes will not erase. Anthropologists and geneticists pooh-pooh the bugaboo of an atavistic black baby. If one of the parents is pure white, the baby cannot be darker than the darker parent; if both have Negro blood, the baby may be slightly darker than its parents but the chances are against...
...rattled through Europe. From Paris, the New York Times's chief foreign correspondent Cyrus Leo Sulzberger reported that "certain [Red Army] units" around Trieste and in southeastern Germany had "been put on the qui vive." Next day, the Times's chief military analyst Hanson Weightman Baldwin mildly pooh-poohed such rumors, declared that the Red Army was demobilizing. His estimate of remaining occupation forces: 2,000,000 plus...