Word: braw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pennies pinched by Scotch employers since the War have turned many a braw Sandy and honest Wully to Communism. Scotland's shipyards on the Clyde and Scotland's dreary coal mines are the new cradle of British Reds. Last week the British Coal Miners' Federation Conference met at Llandudno, Wales, and was bearded by five Scotch Reds, executives of the Scotch Communist Miners' Union, which was recently expelled from the parent Federation. "Tyrant!" bawled the Scots at Federation President Herbert Smith, 65, "we demand a hearing...
...twenties. Thin Legs the wiry stylist, Fat Legs one of the most compact and well-oiled golfing units in the world. Where they walked, the sun had tarried long and close, until the hills steamed. They had walked, for miles, all others dropping. Thin Legs of Scotland, used to braw winds; Fat Legs of Georgia, fond of sweltering...
...most of them little champions, but among them there was easy-going young Joyce Wethered, who, last year (as in 1922), kept every one of them from being a big champion. Had a Scotchman been inclined to bet against Miss Wethered this year, he would probably have chosen either braw Cecil Leitch, unbeatable just before and just after the War (1914, '20, '21), or Glenna Collett, of Providence, R. I., a girl quieter than most of her countrymen, who had turned up with the Canadian and an old U. S. title (1922) in her record...
...discover that "What Every Woman Knows" is still worth knowing and that this fourteen-year-old play has lost none of its sparkle and gayety, but is quite as droll and unspoiled as it was when Maude Adams mourned over her lack of "Charrum". It's a braw, bonnie show and how capitally the Copley forces...