Word: tut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tut-tutting such back bench exuberance, the House proceeded to pass the final provisions of Chancellor Chamberlain's budget (TIME, May 8) by a smash vote...
...state of learning in Harvard Law School was gently tut-tutted last week in Chicago, during the annual convention of the Association of American Law Schools. Reported Harvard Professor Zechariah Chafee Jr.: "At present any allusion to science, literature or history is sure to be meaningless to at least half the college graduates in the room. An occasional call for a show of hands has revealed only a scattered few who had read Pickwick Papers. And the use of the relatives of Romeo & Juliet to clarify (supposedly) a complicated pedigree case led to an overheard conversation between two students...
...Tut-tutted a rambling pessimistic speech by Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald which was called "far below his usual level...
Professional B. E. F. leaders tut-tutted the Mitchell report, called it a "political alibi." They pointed out that even if 1,069 bonuseers did have police records they were all proved by the Attorney General's own words to be real veterans entitled to the Bonus...
...entire U. S. fleet is maneuvering in the Pacific Ocean. "Personally, I think the charges are absurd," barked War Minister Sadoo Araki in his office. "They merely reflect the nervousness of some overzealous persons, frightened at imaginary dangers." Such overzealous persons included the entire Japanese gendarmery, directly subordinate to tut-tutting Lieut.-General Araki. Japanese reporters, calling at offices of the gendarmery, had their worst fears confirmed, rushed off to concoct new American Spy Extras. Spies' Report To Tokyo last week Japanese spies, ever industrious but often stupid, carried what they said was a copy of the League...