Word: tutting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moral prestige of King George was associated last week with "The Deal" to make peace in Ethiopia by giving Italy approximately half that Empire (TIME, Dec. 16). With no subsequent tut-tutting from courtiers, Associated Press put on the world's wires that in highest circles His Majesty was believed to have strongly urged (if he did not command) Captain Anthony Eden, Sanctionist Extraordinary, to assist in making peace quickly by means of The Deal and to desist at Geneva from trying to put through further sanctions...
...Tut-tutted as the Labor Opposition's spleen erupted all week in hot weather blasts against the National Government...
...Tut-tutted the unseemly conduct of Major Walter Elliot, publicity-courting Minister of Agriculture, who permitted himself to be carried to the premises of Birkbeck College last week by two students dressed...
...Tut-tutted when Labor leader "Old George" Lansbury protested that the government had written into the King's speech "not one word about measures to lessen unemployment...
...Tut, tut, TIME. . . . I recall that furriners at the University of Michigan used to be told the school was run from the State House at Lansing, but I never had heard it the other way around...