Word: hamish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mistress. "A year ago, when Victor was still a tax accountant, he fished Elsa out of his typists' pool. She flapped and wriggled a little, and then lay still, legs gently parted." This plummy pair is to spend the weekend cataloguing marketable monstrosities at the mansion of Hamish, an elderly millionaire, and his beautiful, young, crippled wife Gemma...
...dammit, I guess Watson didn't exist or at least didn't write this adventure. No, this book must have been written by Nicholas Meyer after all and although it is a dastardly counterfeit--with lots of spurious biographical information on Dr. John Hamish Watson--Meyer has the good sense to give himself away...
...clamor for control-or at least a big share-of North Sea reserves was accompanied by a rising sense of cultural pride as, in the words of Scots Folklorist Hamish Henderson, "a civilization claws itself back to life." The blue and white Scottish flag is increasingly flown. The Drybrough brewery prints the flag on its export cans, while the brewer of Tennent's lager pushes the slogan: "It's good ... It's satisfying ... It's Scottish." Scots revel in the fact that the country's soccer team qualified for the World Cup final this year...