Word: doon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bids him Anyhoo, sit ye doon...
...Labor M.P. crouching naked in a willow tree, with 40 Scottish housewives prancing below and screeching: "Come doon, ye mangy tod, and I'll buff your beef!"? Why does a stern Presbyterian minister stand by waving a two-handed sword and bellowing: "There is a harvest still, a harvest of thistles and of tares, for the sword of Gideon...
...which to do his writing, it was Jane who directed its construction. When he was exhausted with overwork, it was Jane who laid him tenderly on the sofa and hushed his sonorous Scots groans by sitting down to the piano and playing "Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Doon." When he spent one vacation savoring the simple pleasures of lying under a tree, Jane could not help reminding a friend that there was a very large tree in their own backyard-"but it were too easy to repose under that...