Word: kilting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tilt at the Kilt...
...runs his mess on lines calculated to make dinner with the Macbeths and Banquo's ghost seem like afternoon tea. And because he had been a ranker who had risen from the gutters of Glasgow, he is a figure of awe and almost superstitious regard to the kilted men who swill their usquebaugh and sweat to master pibrochs (variations on bagpipe tunes). As he warms his "celebrated bottom" before the mess fire (nothing, it should be said to satisfy Sassenach and U.S. curiosity, is worn beneath the kilt), it seems no harm can come...
...been collecting them ever since. A convert to Catholicism (1908), he edited the prestigious Catholic quarterly Dublin Review for nearly a decade, now, at 72, cuts a glorious Irish swath through London on his visits, tricked out in mutton-chop whiskers, cockaded tam-o'-shanter, green kilt and dagger in the stocking. He pursues his ghosts with gusto that may well alarm the shyer shades, as well as some readers. To those who are under the impression that the church forbids traffic in ghosts, he explains that the prohibition is against calling them up by necromancy or seance...
...McLean, Va. a British teacher evolved a whole new science program for the Potomac School, which is now a regular part of the curriculum. The principal of Delaware's Bridgeville Consolidated School reported that his visiting Scot was "so delightful" that even his kilt was accepted "without gibes from the males and with downright enthusiasm by the females." In Gig Harbor, Wash, a high-school student won an award in the Betty Crocker "American Homemaker of Tomorrow" contest, took her British home-economics teacher along on the winning trip to Washington, D.C., Williamsburg and Philadelphia. "It was," said...
...shocks keep coming, too. The script, by Robert Ardrey, hangs loosely to the novel but with flaunting style, like a merry kilt to Scottish calves. Moreover, Quentin Durward is as easy on the eyes as on the ears. Much of the film was shot around the finest châteaux-Chenonceaux, Chambord, Maintenon, Fontainebleau-and the graces of French stone and green have lent a coquetry and lightness to these scenes that the art and costume people have tastefully maintained...