Word: dinna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time tae fauld it ony ither wy than on the bias, an' wi' the aidges o't crush't an' crumple't like the heid o' a pine brod that has been hemmer't by a 10 year auld boy, I dinna want it, for I haena time tae airn't oot sae the pages can be turn't an' read. The last nummer wasna sae sair mutilatit as that for Sept. 24, an' I hae read some o' it. I see ye say that Jix addressed...
...Lord Stevenson was a bad yin. I see ye dinna owerleuk him in yer last issue. He was anither o' thae Ayrshire Yokels. He gaed tae the same schule as I did masel'. I wunner what Jix was thinkin' o' himsel', addressin' the like...
...canna quite mak' oot what TIME is tryin' tae bring tae its readers by the "gaping" in that literary gem. I was born and brocht up ("raised" we say oot here) among the Ayrshire yokels, an' I dinna min' seein' them gap much, except when they might be tryin' tae read a newsmagazine as dull as TIME. No that ony siccan drivel was produced in Ayrshire, but there bein' nae censorship on dullness, some yawn-provokers frae the ootside at times got on tae the newsstaunds, an' were whyles bocht by chaps...
Married. Lincoln Eyre, able Berlin correspondent of the New York Times, to Dinna Gralla, famed Polish cinema actress; at sea, aboard the President Roosevelt...
...from the beginning. Mr. Gladstone was the only other man who could make so many Scotsmen take politics as if it were the Highland Fling. Once when Lord Rosebery was firing an Edinburgh audience to the delirium point, an old man in the hall shouted out: 'I dinna hear a word he says, but it's grand, it's grand...