Word: tutting
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...Tut, tut, TIME. . . . I recall that furriners at the University of Michigan used to be told the school was run from the State House at Lansing, but I never had heard it the other way around...
Arriving at Harbin, the jumping off place for Manchukuo pioneer homesteaders, Mr. Nakaoka tut-tutted the idea that among the Japanese homesteaders he will enjoy any special prestige or influence because he was the very first person ever to assassinate a Japanese Premier, polishing off Premier Hara in 1921 for the now fashionable reason that he was "spineless...
...Tut, tut, young gentlemen! That expression about a political demon is fusty! And what else should a demon be if not ruthless? As to the propriety of liberals feeling distrust for the Senator because they have been disgusted by personal contact with him, that is something which it would take an ingenious liberal to explain. But prudent delvers in English must refuse to believe that character can be guarded by a bodyguard. A bodyguard may keep strangers from whanging a Senator in the eye, but a Senator's character needs far different and subtler protection...
...lawyer friend in Rochester, told him he had a little work for him. The Governor wanted George Slingerland Van Schaick (pronounced Skoik) to be his insurance commissioner. Over a lengthy luncheon Lawyer Van Schaick protested that he had never held public office, that he knew nothing about insurance. Tut, tut, replied the Governor, there were plenty of insurance experts in the department. What Mr. Roosevelt wanted was an administrator. So at one of the most critical periods in insurance history George S. Van Schaick took over the insurance department of the biggest insurance State in the Union. Governor Roosevelt...
...never felt better in his life after sleeping for two weeks in King Tut-Ankh-Amen's Tomb...