Word: tutting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Guests were embarrassed. Grace Coolidge was not. She leaned over so as to see around a floral centrepiece and, looking the President squarely in the eye, said with a smile, 'Oh, tut, tut...
Anxious to hold out as long as possible, A. J. ("Emperor") Cook, Secretary of the Coal Miners' Federation, took it upon himself to accept 2,500,000 rubles ($1,250,000) which were cabled last week to the British miners' "strike fund" by Moscow labor groups. Britons tut-tutted at this, recalling how the Trada Union Council which directed the "general strike" had gained much approbation by refusing a similar Russian contribution (TIME, May 17). The Home Secretary, Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, thereupon created a sensation by announcing that the Trade Union Council could not have accepted the Russian...
...Tut-tutting. Should William Randolph Hearst announce that he was writing The Life of Christ, many persons might be vexed. Many tut-tutted last week when "the Hearst of England," Lord Beaverbrook,* owner of the lurid London Daily Express, etc., announced that he is writing a biography of the Nazarene "in an arresting style . .. great reverence. .. sincerity ... will explain the Savior's actions...
From the tomb of Tut-ank-Amen and countless other mines of Egyptian treasure there come almost daily, priceless additions to the collections of the pitifullv inadequate and overcrowded museum at Cairo. For three months the Egyptian Cabinet has been trying to decide whether to accept $10,000,000 from John D. Rockefeller Jr. wherewith to build and endow forever a museum adequate beyond all dreams, a beautiful and safe repository, equipped to preserve these treasures by every means known to science (TIME, March 1, et ante...
...King Tut had achieved little of manhood when he died. He was a slim lad, slender, sapplingesque. Nothing so became him as his burial. The world's chief artificers buzzed about him. They stretched him out. His hands, as tired as a pair of autumn leaves, they folded across his breast. Upon his head they set the royal golden diadem, the eager vulture (Nekhebet), the playful serpent (Buto). From his neck they suspended amuletic idols. Pectorals of elaborate cloisonne they strewed upon his breast. A star beaten out of golden foil marked the place where his heart had been...