Word: tutting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tut-Tut-Tut . . ." After two years of Oberlin, World War I took Thornton into a coast-defense unit ("I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal"). But by that time he was a Yaleman after all. Thornton wrote for the Lit, joined the Elizabethan Club, quoted Goethe with Sophomore Robert Hutchins. Thornton's room became a salon, where he would read his plays aloud or hold forth on the gloomy beauties of George Gissing. Professor William Lyon Phelps exclaimed: "I believe he is a genius." Mr. Wilder demurred: "Oh, tut-tut-tut, Billy...
When the bright glare of publicity focused on the inequities of applying Lamont's 9 p.m. check-out time to commuters, library officials uttered a quiet tut-tut, but that was all. As early as October, the Student Council presented them with a solution: allow commuters to take out one of every five conies of reserved books at five o'clock, these books being marked specifically for non-residents. But after two months, both the books and the ratio plan are still shelved...
True Liberal Republicans must today be joining in the chorus of quiet tut tuts from the throats of harassed News editors of the past three years. Who have stood shoulder to shoulder with their brethren in Cambridge in the battle to enlighten their less progressive campusmates. John Steadman 1L ex-Chairman Yale Dally News...
...being built on all sides - no doubt slowly and badly and at the expense of the Russian standard of living -but none the less it is possible to see more capital work being undertaken in one day in Russia than in a month in Britain. War could do nothing tut damage, the program...
...Tut! Tut! and shame for Collier's for its frightening, war-scary article, "Preview of the War We Do Not Want" [TIME...