Word: auld
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...TIME hisna time tae fauld it ony ither wy than on the bias, an' wi' the aidges o't crush't an' crumple't like the heid o' a pine brod that has been hemmer't by a 10 year auld boy, I dinna want it, for I haena time tae airn't oot sae the pages can be turn't an' read. The last nummer wasna sae sair mutilatit as that for Sept. 24, an' I hae read some o' it. I see ye say that...
...America's fond tolerance of collegiatism, if its cause were removed, might bring psychological chaos in its wake. Moreover, it is believed that through John Held alone do youth and age alike recollect emotion in tranquility. To prevent the catastrophic shock of sudden vanishing, as well as for auld lang syne, haven was furnished collegiatism--in the back pages of Judge...
After this, the faculty members, full of conviviality, sang "Auld Lang Syne." Their voices, Michael Bonney considered, were rather bad. But he said nothing. A humble man, he stood gently smiling around at his friends. He was content...
...compatriot, was second with 161 points. Rugger Bill Melhorn of Chicago was third with 160 points. Other scores: Walter Hagen 148 points, Archie Compston 134, Joe Kirkwood 128. "Par" in points was 228. Comparison of the medal (stroke) scores shed but little light on the relative merits of "guid auld" and "scientific" golf. Mitchell equaled the course record of 69; Melhorn...
...long before dawn to warble into the microphone songs that were to be heard in the U. S. between 11 and midnight. Mme. Clara Novello-Davies, in Manhattan, and her son, Composer Ivan Novello, in London, simultaneously attempted to lead radio fanatics of the Western Hemisphere in singing "Auld Lang Syne," but it was a bad night and few got the tune. The stations heard most clearly by the U. S. were Lima, Buenos Aires and Madrid. Dubious reports filtered in from Germany and Russia that U. S. stations had been heard there...