Word: tutte
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Says Bachelor Tutt, in describing the library of his home in Manhattan's old London Terrace: "There have I heard confessions of everything from infidelity to murder; there I have seen husbands and wives reconciled, repentant daughters and sons forgiven, restitutions made after many years...
There are innumerable tales about the characters in Pottsville, in western New York (where Tutt first practiced law); in pre-World-War-I Manhattan (where Tutt learned that law is not justice, is a luxury the poor cannot afford); and in the U.S. at large. There is Tammany Boss Croker, who, says Tutt, was no worse than Republican Boss Tom Platt. There is Mark Sullivan, who (in Bull Moose days) was a "semi-Socialist." When the Lusitania was sunk, only Tutt and Frederic R. Coudert Jr.* (at a meeting of 18 prominent attorneys) thought the U.S. should get into World...
...Tutt v. the Law. But Ephraim Tutt's autobiography is not only entertainment. Tutt belongs with Uncle Sam, David Harum and Paul Bunyan as a symbol of what Americans think of themselves, how they would like to be. Tutt's autobiography takes the serious reader to the border of one of literature's most fascinating phenomena : the myth, and its meaning in the ethos of a nation...
Author Train's Ephraim Tutt, says Tutt, is not the real Tutt. Train's Tutt, he continues, is not even consistent, changes from story to story, from "mountebank to philosopher, from shyster to philanthropist, from lawbreaker to up holder of the Constitution." The real Tutt is a rebel...
...natural rebel," Tutt says. "I rebelled . . . against my father's Calvinistic theology and the severity of his paternal discipline, against the artificial social distinctions of my college days, later against the influence of politics upon the courts, and always against privilege, despotism, and the perversion of the law to selfish ends...