Word: tutting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what Paul de Kruif did long ago for bacteriology in Microbe Hunters. The result is a highly readable series of biographical profiles: of the Frenchman, Jean François Champollion, who unriddled the ancient babble of the Rosetta Stone; of Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon, who dug up King Tut, and of several more. The biographical sketches carry the story of archeology nicely along, and if the atmosphere of the book is a bit dustier than that of Microbe Hunters, it is not so much Ceram's fault as the fault of his subject...
...ball over there. Over here we stroke the ball and the ball rolls. Here we concentrate on teaching people how to swing. In America they concentrate on the hitting. I saw one guy go almost off his feet. If we see somebody do that here, we go, 'Tut, tut...
...dispute between Red China and the Nationalists. In retaliation, Peking confiscated the property of the British Shell Company of China (which has installations in Shanghai, Canton, Tientsin, Amoy & Hankow). In London, a Tory bigwig huffed: "Palmerston would have sent a gunboat at once." But a Labor policymaker tut-tutted: "We must not be the ones to set the east aflame-or to turn that heat against the west. Patience, unending patience...
Tito was cuddling up to capitalism. Last week Belgrade's Borba, mouthpiece of Tito's Communist Party, tut-tutted portentously over the past five years of Soviet-type planning and production. "There were, for instance," reported the paper, "ladies' overcoats manufactured by the Naprijed factory that have no pockets, men's coats in several shades, blue sport shirts with black sleeves, hats with spots that could not be removed . . . Thousands of padlocks put on the market by a factory in Pola can be opened with the same key. Forks produced by the Vjeceslav Holjevac factory...
...King Tut Shuffle. Harold Ockenga was not always concerned with world evangelism. As president of his Chicago high-school fraternity, a biographer records, "he sparked a dance in the La Salle...