Word: hogmanay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scotsmen, New Year's Eve is Hogmanay, a time for revelry and rejoicing...
...generations, a great crowd of Scotsmen gathered atop London's Ludgate Hill last Hogmanay to sing under the smoky dome of St. Paul's. After midnight the revellers walked away. Recently the following appeared in the London Times' "agony column"; Will the bearded Scot who greeted the New Year by stamping on my foot on steps of St. Paul's cathedral while singing "Auld Lang Syne" kindly send 30 shillings to pay medical attendance and this advertisement? - COLLEEN IN GREEN...
Good Scotch Calvinists disapprove of Christmas, consider Christmas trees and Christmas presents to be popish and heathen things, savoring of idolatry. Scotch bairns wait for their toys till Hogmanay, New Year's Eve. On New Year's Eve last week, Paisley children were up with the dawn, shouting under housewives' windows...
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...promised to be a specially good Hogmanay for Paisley bairns, for the manager of the Glen Motion Picture Theatre had advertised a holiday matinee for children. In deference to Scotch ethics it was not a free matinee, but the admission was only a penny. Just after lunch 800 children clutching grimy pennies trooped to the Glen Theatre and sat on hard wooden benches to watch the unreeling of The Crowd, a slightly morbid U. S. cinema depicting the struggles of a New York clerk and the distressing death of his little daughter. The only grownups in the audience were...