Word: kilted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kilt-style skirt worn over shorts (already fashionable among Florida's rich beach boys...
Died. The Mackintosh of Mackintosh (Alfred Bonald Mackintosh), 87, since 1876 the 28th Chief of Clan Chattan; of a heart attack; at Moy Hall, Inverness, Scotland. A strict dresser, The Mackintosh once threatened to resign from the Kilt Society unless white ties with evening kilts were prohibited, black ties made compulsory...
...King as he then still was, entered in the kilt, refused the old-fashioneds prepared by Mrs. Simpson and addressed her Aunt Bessie as "Aunt Bessie," Mrs. Simpson addressed the King as "Sir," according to Cousin Newbold who presently gave King Edward his "professional opinion" that 70% of all U. S. newspaper stories about Mrs. Simpson had been favorable...
...morning in such a manner that the first paragraph announced that Mrs. Simpson had arrived at Balmoral Castle while the second para graph said that the Duke & Duchess of York had opened the Royal Infirmary at Aberdeen. While Their Royal Highnesses were doing so. His Majesty, wearing a kilt and with a Scottish tarn o' shanter set jauntily over one ear, arrived at the Aberdeen railway station and greeted Mrs. Simpson as she alighted to be his guest...
...Best known bearded Scot: Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, author of travel books, persistent kilt wearer, onetime M. P. (1886-92), ardent Scotch nationalist...