Word: tutting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago's Black Belt, police evicted a colored woman from her flat. Instantly a crowd estimated at 3.000 gathered in the street. Evidently led by Communist agitators, shouting 'Tut that furniture back!" and "We want something to eat!" they rushed the constables. Casualties: three Negroes killed, 20 Negroes and whites injured. Mayor Anton Cermak ordered further evictions to cease. ¶Near Pointe-a-la-Hache, La., occurred Lynching No. 4 for the year. The victim, Oscar Livingston, 23, had been jailed on a charge of attempted rape of a young white woman. Eight days after his incarceration...
...Norway, where Peace perches upon every altar of a pensive people, the action of the Arctic Council embarrassed everyone exceedingly, led to no end of tut-tutting. In the Storting (Parliament) Speaker Hambro declared: "It is important that the country and the government be not further compromised by the Arctic Council. ... Its action has called forth comment by no means flattering to Norway...
Ever since its exhibition at London's Leicester Galleries two months ago, Sculptor Jacob Epstein's white marble Genesis has moved critics and letters-to-the-Times writers to a frenzy of denunciation. "You white foulness!" the Daily Express called it. Punch published tut-tutting cartoons. Last week the U. S. art world learned that the tide had turned. Genesis had found favorable reviews, and a purchaser. Opined the Manchester Guardian...
...Land. The Norwegian Elkhound Association of America, which met the dog at the boat, had purchased it from Dr. Dyrlage T. Hemsen, one of Norway's most famed dog breeders. They planned to present it to President Hoover to take the place of the late German shepherd King Tut (TIME, June 13). Pedigree papers were sent at once to the Department of Agriculture to be certified. Dugal Guy Campbell, secretary of the Norwegian Elkhound Association, informed President Hoover that he had something for him, was received at the White House. Norwegian elkhounds are scarce in U. S., common...
...Canadian wheat situation that when the Royal Tomb of Tutankhamen was opened in 1922 some wheat grains and other foods were found; that in 1926 a friend sent a few of the grains to Farmer Sydney Cunningham of Alberta, who in turn sent grains produced by his original "King Tut wheat" to Farmer Charles Borry, who grew new wheat from a crop produced by the original old grains...