Word: crofter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hundreds of psychological portraits of war figures, Macmillan thus characterized Mussolini's successor, Marshal Badoglio: "Honest, broadminded, humorous. I should judge of peasant origin." It might stand also as a fair self-portrait of the grandson of a Scots crofter...
...John Brown was thirty-five, with red-gold hair and beard and a precisely shaven upper lip, handsome in a big, scrubbed, leathery sort of Highland way. His eyes were remarkable, fierce and kindly, gentle and naming: but who among the aristocratic Household noticed the eyes of a kilted crofter, faintly odoriferous no doubt of sweat, who lived among the grooms...