Word: tutting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unexpected Prop. Strengthening Schermerhorn's position and the throne was an unexpected prop, Prince Consort Bernhard. Before the war, when his flashy roadster was constantly streaking from The Hague to the Riviera, most Dutchmen tagged Prince Bernhard as a playboy. Tut during the war he played a big part in fusing the quarreling Dutch Resistance forces into a unified group which did a notable job of preparing the ground ahead of the Canadian liberators. Bernhard himself negotiated with the Germans and had everything practically sewed up, except for actual signatures, when Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery received their surrender...
...Tut-tutted the Vancouver Sun: "If there is an explanation we can only hope that it will be announced quickly because the longer mud is allowed to stick, even on a uniform, the harder it is to remove...
Because of his own enthusiasm for science, Van Anda made it front-page news, devoting big space to Marconi's experiments in telegraphy and to Peary's and Amundsen's polar expedition. He led the way in making Einstein and "King Tut" U.S. household words...
Lord Carnarvon's expedition to the tomb of Tutankhamen in 1922 so fascinated Van Anda that he immersed himself in Egyptology. When the first photographs of King Tut's tomb arrived in Manhattan, Times editors wondered where an expert could be found in a hurry to translate the hieroglyphics on the wall; Van Anda did the translating...
During the last days of the King Tut story he came down with pneumonia. He never fully recovered. Though the Times listed him as managing editor for another seven years, he actually retired in 1925. He spent the succeeding years studying mathematics and astronomy, now & then catching Sir James Jeans or the British Museum in error. Last week, in his Park Avenue apartment, he got a piece of news by telephone: his only daughter had died. Two hours later, Carr Van Anda, 80, one of journalism's greats, died of a heart attack...