Word: hae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Auld Hornie, nae sooner is the lad in Oban than he spies a paughty lass wi' a weel-rounded doup. Och. but when he attempts to hae a crack wi' her, she snashes him back an' ca's him nae mair than a bluntie blellum. The neist lass he meets is a scroggie auld scaul' that snowks him out for a slidd'ry jaukiner from Ireland bent on houghmagandie (or waur), an' she gaes scraichin' to the bobbie...
...whole bairntime a blype o' kecklin an' snirtlin. Attour, the spunkie singin' o' Brochan Lorn Tana Lorn an' the sicht o' the banks an' braes o' bonnie Argyll in sic a spairge o' green an' gowd is like to hae the harigals out o' ony mon wi' a drap o' Scottish bluid, an' that's the fu' graip o' gulravage...
...print last week on the subject of McCarthy's social standing: Eleanor Roosevelt. Asked if it were true that she had said she would shake hands with Russia's Andrei Vishinsky but not far with McCarthy, Mrs. Roosevelt replied: "As far as I can recall, I hae never refused to shake hands with anyone. I have shaken hands with Senator McCarthy a number of times and certainly would do so again. I have shaken hands with Mr. Vishinsky on a number of occasions, and I would certainly do so again...
Weel, lasses 'n laddies, Bonnie Prince Charlie maun hae been a vurra romantical figure, but it is nae a vurra guid film. Fa' after twenty minutes o' furious ettle, the rest is nae but a lot o' blather...
...were there ha' sae much blather as the remains of the movie showed, 'twould be wee wonder that the Scotsmen couldna win the war. A man mocht e'en think they wer'nae beaten at Culloden wi' clouds o' Redcoat shot 'n shell, but hae merely talked themselves to death...