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Actually, it took Johnson a good deal longer than he thought. For nine years, balanced precariously in a chair with only three legs, he worked at his word lists in the garret of his Gough Square house. At first he had a lofty ambition: not only to rid the language of impurities, but to fix it permanently. "Our language," he wrote. "for almost a century, has, by the concurrence of many causes, been gradually departing from its original Teutonick character, and deviating towards a Gallick structure and phraseology, from which it ought to be our endeavour to recal...
Ricochet Romance. In Hutchinson, Kans., Bill Dennis and Pat Gough finally said "I do" after a wedding day in which 1) Dennis forgot to pick up the license, 2) Pastor Lonnie Smith became ill, 3) the bride's brother failed to arrive, 4) the air conditioning blew out the church candles, 5) Dennis, waiting at the altar, discovered he had misplaced the ring...
...loves a High land lassie, Helen Mary (Glynis Johns), but hesitates to marry her as long as he is fighting the English. Against them he wages a brilliant guerrilla war that finally discredits the British Secretary of State for Scotland, the cruel Duke of Montrose (Michael Gough), and brings a true Scottish patriot, the Duke of Argyll (James Robertson Justice) back to power. In the end, Rob, his bagpiper and his sword-squire strut through London Town to get their pardon of King George I of England...
...principals in Rob Roy, Actor Todd and Actress Johns, are the same Disney used in The Sword and the Rose-Todd was in Robin Hood too-and they play the man and maid with a pleasant innocence and archaic grace. Actors Gough and Justice, also in the previous pictures, are admirable swashbucklers both. The local types are nicely interpolated-a red-cheeked Gaelic extra makes such a vivid vernacular dither with a Highland air that she steals a big scene from the lovers...
Just in from a 23-day fact-finding dash through Europe, the American Legion's bouncy President Lewis K. Gough, an inheritance-tax appraiser for the State of California, got off to a smash start at a press conference in St. Louis: "If we had a round table here, I'd think I was sitting before a Senate committee, except you gentlemen look more intelligent...