Word: tutting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cortes (Parliament) smiling Premier Azana passed off lightly the fact that three additional generals suspected of a plot to restore Alfonso XIII, had to be placed under arrest recently. "All these are simply isolated cases of indiscipline," said Premier Azana. He tut-tutted rumors that the Army is wavering in its loyalty to the Republic...
...Foreign Office spokesman said bluntly that the "main reason" why his Government would have none of the Hoover proposals last week was the refusal of Washington to assent to what Japan has done in Manchuria. I ask you to remember," said Japanese War Minister Lieut.-General Sadao Araki, tut-tutting the Hoover proposals, "that the Japanese troops are a strictly disciplined force and perform their duties with as little harmfulness as possible...
...Identify yourself early and firmly with a national issue} had Mr Baker tripped and fallen. From Wilson he had inherited the League of Nations issue on which he hammered away at every possible opportunity. Last winter he made a particularly fervent plea for U S action. Editors began to tut-tut him as a presidential possibility. Soon Mr Baker dropped his League issue like a hot cake assured the country that he would not take the U. S. in even if he had the power to do so, advised Democrats to discard the question as a partisan issue. Most people...
...cheap" and marble busts is robbed by a patrol of Arsene Lupin's police-clad confederates. The final insult to Guerchard occurs in the Louvre at a moment when it is surrounded by police. While Guerchard, twenty-five feet away, is standing in the very same room, the words "tut, tut", are scrawled across the front of a reproduction of the Mona Lisa, and the real one, locked in a nearby room, is cut out of its frame and made away with...
...with a quick twangy tongue, he served four years in the Texas Legislature, five years as a local district attorney. Elected to Congress in 1928, he refused to be suppressed with other obscure newcomers. Insistently he demanded that the Government cash its soldier bonus certificates in full. Secretary Mellon tut-tutted him as a wild young man. But Congressman Patman kept harping away on his issue until he had started a backfire among the veteran vote that was stopped only when Congress, over the President's veto, raised the loan value of bonus certificates to 50%. In that fight...