Word: tutting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arriving at Harbin, the jumping off place for Manchukuo pioneer homesteaders, Mr. Nakaoka tut-tutted the idea that among the Japanese homesteaders he will enjoy any special prestige or influence because he was the very first person ever to assassinate a Japanese Premier, polishing off Premier Hara in 1921 for the now fashionable reason that he was "spineless...
...Tut, tut, young gentlemen! That expression about a political demon is fusty! And what else should a demon be if not ruthless? As to the propriety of liberals feeling distrust for the Senator because they have been disgusted by personal contact with him, that is something which it would take an ingenious liberal to explain. But prudent delvers in English must refuse to believe that character can be guarded by a bodyguard. A bodyguard may keep strangers from whanging a Senator in the eye, but a Senator's character needs far different and subtler protection...
...lawyer friend in Rochester, told him he had a little work for him. The Governor wanted George Slingerland Van Schaick (pronounced Skoik) to be his insurance commissioner. Over a lengthy luncheon Lawyer Van Schaick protested that he had never held public office, that he knew nothing about insurance. Tut, tut, replied the Governor, there were plenty of insurance experts in the department. What Mr. Roosevelt wanted was an administrator. So at one of the most critical periods in insurance history George S. Van Schaick took over the insurance department of the biggest insurance State in the Union. Governor Roosevelt...
James Henry Breasted, famed Orientalist of the University of Chicago, announced he was going back to work on King Tut-Ankh-Amen's tomb in March. Of the Sunday-supplement "Curse of the Pharaohs," which is supposed to kill off Egyptian tomb-snoopers and which was revived last fortnight by the death of famed British Egyptologist Arthur E. P. B. Weigall (TIME, Jan. 15), Professor Breasted chortled: "All tommyrot! I defy that curse. And if anyone was exposed to it I was. For two weeks I slept in the tomb of King Tut-Ankh-Amen and took my meals...
...never felt better in his life after sleeping for two weeks in King Tut-Ankh-Amen's Tomb...