Word: tutting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the fringier gents of the "give it hell" school of Chicago jazz is Boyco Brown, the alto saxophonist, who not only studies metaphysics but applies them to his musicianship and even his everyday existence. When he tangled with spiritual Tut Soper (who also plays phenomenal piano) the lid was off and it was strictly a case for the man with...
Boyce and Tut decided they could play better if they confined their relationship to music and nothing else. So for two weeks they didn't speak to one another and didn't even look at each other. Folks used to travel all the way from Milwaukee just to see Boyce and Tut backing up to the bandstand from opposite sides at the beginning of each set, mouths grimly clamped as they groped their...
Editorial Tut. In Washington, the State Department employes' official publication (The Diplomat) deplored the fact that persons to whom secrets of international importance were entrusted could not be trusted with the State Department cafeteria's silverware...
...controlled by the plutocratic Farm Bureau Federation has ceased its predatory strategy. Labor, damned for years as the most noisy group in Washington, has been singularly silent since the "act or else" speech of Labor Day. The National Association of Manufacturers is as quiet as the crickets in King Tut's tomb. Only the farm bloc stands in the way of immediate and effective anti-inflation legislation...
...This conduct must stop," thundered Sir Frank after welfare workers brought him further word that Spencer Street, a business thoroughfare little used at night, was "full of soldiers and girls kissing in wrestling holds, in the middle of the pavement, prolonged and unashamed." Every doorway, snoopers tut-tutted, was packed with necking couples...