Word: buchananism
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...Britain's great houses is vast and dour Buchanan Castle, near Drymen (rhymes with women), Stirlingshire. Back in 1935 James Graham, Sixth Duke of Montrose, decided that Buchanan cost too much to live in. He had already sold the mountain-famed Ben Lomond-that stood in the castle's backyard. He built himself and his Duchess a cosy, eleven-room house on the castle grounds, leased 60,000 acres of shooting land to a Glasgow businessmen's association, and turned the castle itself into a hotel...
Last week in desperation, the Duke of Montrose took an ad in the paper, offered Buchanan, complete with its 40 bedrooms, 16 baths, 40 acres of woodlands, nine acres of gardens and incomparable view of Loch Lomond, for $28 a week to anyone who would keep the place in repair...
Whirling into the dizzy '205, Gertrude separated from her husband. In 1924, she landed in New York. Co-starring in Charlot's Revue with Bea Lillie and Jack Buchanan, Gertrude captured Broadway by singing Limehouse Blues. Critic Percy Hammond wrote that "every man in New York is, or was, in love with Gertrude Lawrence." Whenever she entered a nightclub, the band played Limehouse Blues...
...Fossil. Few of his contemporaries won his affection, fewer still his awe. President Buchanan he labeled "Old Pennsylvania Fossil." Andrew Jackson, he noted, had done the U.S. "more harm than any man who ever lived in it. unless it may have been Tom Jefferson." Boss Tweed he crowned "His Scoundrelism...
Poor Man's Appetite. In Milwaukee, Ralph Buchanan broke into a tavern at dawn, got hot lifting bottles of champagne out of a wine-cellar window, decided to have a quick beer, was still searching for a bottle-opener when cops came...