Word: tutting
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...kind of thing that passed for "physical culture" among the Anglo-Saxons of yore. And what's more, such ancient sports and kindred traditions are very much alive and, er, kicking in 21st century Britain. The Cotswold "Olimpicks" - events included cudgel fights and bearbaiting - survived until the intervention of tut-tutting vicars, landowners and justices of the peace in 1852. The sport of shin kicking, a variant of wrestling - with heavy boots and few rules - hung on a few decades longer. It even enjoyed a brief vogue in the U.S. In 1883, New York's Sunday Mercury ran a wince...
...committing suicide] the biggest sin of all?” wonders one of the characters in the selection. “I can see that it’s a sort of queue-jumping. But if you jump in a queue, people tut, they don’t say, ‘You’re going to burn in hellfire for all eternity...
...inquiry, which next month will hear testimony from Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt. "It was an astonishing episode," says Raymond Langendries, president of the commission. As America's business scandals resonate throughout Europe - triggering a slew of safeguards meant to improve corporate transparency and accountability - the unmistakable sound of tut-tutting can be heard across the Continent: many business leaders contend that Enron-style abuses simply couldn't happen on their turf. "Our situation is profoundly different from the American one," says Daniel Bouton, CEO of the French bank Société Generale and head of a corporate governance group...
...First-year proctor James R. Alourde ’98 is constantly scandalized by what he reads in Gossip Guy. “Tut, tut,” he tut-tuts...
...like Brooks' songs for "The Producers." And toward the end of the show he seems to realize he's run out of early-60s musical signatures to filch from. So in the last two songs he steals from 70s retro-rock. "Cooties" is nothing but Steve Martin's "King Tut." The finale, which brings the entire female company together to sing "You Can't Stop the Beat," begins as yet another Spector classic, "River Deep Mountain High," the raids pretty much the entire oeuvre of Jim Steinman, of Meat Loaf notoriety...