Word: tutting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alabama still wants to play in the Rose Bowl. Georgia Tech outplayed the Crimson Tide for three quarters, then four minutes before the game ended, Alabama's Tut Warren caught a forward pass just over the goal line. Score: Alabama 7, Georgia Tech...
...convenience of Britain's aristocracy privileged to remain in the Abbey without a chance of escape for six and one-half hours. A jesting officer of the Gold Staff ordered all the cisterns to be tested together. As a workman obeyed the command, the Archbishop protested: "Tut, tut, that will never do. It's just like Niagara...
...days Premier Tatarescu, his resignation not yet accepted by irresolute King Carol, strutted bravely at Bucharest, an amazing Balkan bantam who had tut-tutted Der Führer and Il Duce. Next came crash!-and CRASH!-the replies of Berlin and Rome. The angry Dictators in almost identical telegrams slapped King Carol in the face by telling the Royal Rumanian Government officially that the envoys of Germany and Italy had attended in their private capacity "the funeral of the two heroes" and that no ground for asking their recall existed. Friends of Mme Lupescu, "Smartest Woman in the Balkans," were...
Because Hell Week seems a better idea to youngsters than to oldsters, the doings of zealous local chapters never escape tut-tutting at sessions of the National Interfraternity Conference, which represents the elders of 62 U. S. Greek Letter societies. Meeting last week in Manhattan, the Conference administered to Hell Week its severest slap to date by resolving "to give cordial support to measures to abolish Hell Week taken by any college or university...
From one of his own subordinates last week President Butler received a stern tut-tutting. In his annual report, Dean William F. Russell of Columbia's Teachers College wrote: "The little red schoolhouse, with its ignorant teacher, slight equipment, few books, red-hot stove and icy walls has become glorified in some minds; distance has lent enchantment; and the inference is that if we should only return to the good old days all would be well...