Word: chieftain
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...sheep huddled in the lee of ancient deserted cottages. But from the flagstaff of Duart Castle the Maclean banner whipped boldly, and down in the great hall the pipes were screaming "The Chief's Salute." Hundreds of Macleans from all over the world were there to drink their chieftain's health, to eat his mutton and haggis. The Maclean of Clan Maclean, Sir Fitzroy Donald Maclean of Dowart and Morvaren, was celebrating his 50th year as chieftain of the clan at the castle that he had restored after 200 years of ruin and neglect...
Twenty-two years ago, already an old man, he returned to Mull to fulfill his dream. Masons and workmen went to work and soon the towers of Duart Castle were standing again. Last week at 98 he was the oldest Highland chieftain, with tasseled sporran and a jeweled skean dhus dirk in his stocking. But the buckles on his pumps were no brighter than his blue eyes. In addition to the hardy souls who journeyed to Duart Castle to make merry amid ancestral scenes, Macleans in Canada, India and the U. S. were drinking Sir Fitzroy 's health...
...University, Ali Baba, 20, son of the Sheikh Mahumud of Suleimaniye, Irak, arrived in Manhattan from Alexandria, Egypt, where he spent the last four years in college. Said Ali Baba: "Please let me say that no years shall ever compare with the five years I was with the great chieftain, my father, when he made war in the Kurd Mountains...
...ones except Rembrandt, Renoir and Franz Hals. Typical comment : "Da Vinci is the bunk - a mathematician, a subway digger." Died. Conrad E. Biehl, 67, Colorado's "glass eye king"; by his own hand (carbon monoxide gas) ; in Pueblo, Col. His world-wide glass eye clientele included a Zulu chieftain. Died. Paul Painleve, 69, thrice Premier of France, ten times Cabinet Min ister, once president of the Chamber of Deputies, distinguished scientist; after long illness; in Paris. Son of a Parisian baker, he won attention at home and abroad with discoveries in algebra, mechanics, astronomy, became professor at the Sorbonne...
...Hildebrand," said the hierophant, "survives only because two monks broke their vows of obedience. To stamp out paganism the Church had ordered all vernacular writings destroyed. It succeeded very well, for it used conquest to extend its influence, or, in failing that, it converted a Germanic chieftain by offering him a plump, pretty wife, delivered on condition that he embrace the true faith and help stamp out the practices of the heathen. These tactics were always successful. So the only remains of a rich aboriginal literature are scraps like this, saved only because a pair of bored and undutiful clerks...