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...auld mug," Sir Thomas Lipton lovingly called it, and the merry Glasgow tea baron tried five times to win it with his majestic Shamrocks, only to fail and die, finally disheartened ("I willna challenge again. I canna...
...midday rush begins. "Four plaice! . . . Two turbot! ... I got six steaks! . . . Four plaice, please, ducks! . . . Three cutlets, Hans! . . . Two omelettes! . . . Four cod, lover boy! Ye canna be a slow coach here!" Waitresses scream, cooks curse, knives flash, fat crackles, urns squeal, sweat spews out of every pore and food leaps furiously from pot to plate as though it were alive. Faster the pace, wilder the tumult. Like a runaway reactor, like a Beethoven rising to full frenzy the great kitchen gathers itself and surges, thunders, mindlessly explodes in a tremendous climax of comestibles...
...minimum wage ($1,036 plus a house) of its ministers when a sturdy dockworker rose, announced that his salary was $3,360, and made a strong plea for the underpaid clergy. "That is well said," replied the Rev. John McBeath, assembly president, "but let me remind you that you canna tak the breeks off a Hielan' mon!" Nonetheless, the assembly voted a $140 increase...
...Goes Donald. The agreement made, MacLean marched off with his Spaniards to ravage his ancient enemies, the MacDonalds, on the islands of Rum, Eigg, Canna and Muck. When he returned, the Spaniard announced that he was ready to set sail...
...trail of a mass murderer." In World War II an Orr survey provided the basis for British food rationing. He never stopped lecturing people on eating the right kind of food; once he complained that he could get farmers interested in feeding their animals properly "but I canna get them interested in the food of their ain bairns, far less in the bairns of ither folks...