Word: laird
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York, N.Y. 37 Ippolito, Michael V. '60 21 6:2 203 Long Branch, N.J. 18 Iseman, Michael D. '61 20 6:3 200 Fremont, Neb. 77 Klein, James W. '61 19 6:2 197 Pine Lakes, N.J. 36 Kornrumpf, Donald M. '61 20 5:10 185 Uniondale, N.Y. 25 Laird, William P. '62 19 5:11 175 Rose Valley, Pa. 34 Lane, James S. '61 19 5:11 185 Hopkins, Minn. 38 Large, Henry W. '62 19 6:1 200 Spring House, Pa. 33 Loud, Brewster M. '61 20 6:1 189 New Canaan, Conn. 19 MacMurray, John...
...When next seen, at the age of twenty-one, he is a well-built tower, about six and one-half feet high. He wins the hammer throw in the Olympics, and then promptly renounces athletics to return to his highland lass, and to resume the idyllic life as the Laird's head gamekeeper, in the glen...
Comedy enters only occasionally, but nicely. The scene in which, as a demonstration of technique, the eccentric old Laird and a sledge hammer wind each other up and hurl themselves into space is exquisite. The Laird becomes a most amusing exaggeration of a country squire with the overplaying of Alastair Sim, who can squint, fidget, grimace, say nothing at great length, and provoke laughter as well as any British character alive. The large Wee Geordie is played by Bill Travers, who in such a "natural man" role, does not have much positive acting to do, yet does it well...
...that muscle, why not use it for some practical purpose? "In Scotland," Samson went on, "the tendency is to throw things. I think you should throw something. Geordie." Geordie was electrified. He promptly picked up a sledge hammer and threw it halfway to the coast of Norway. The laird (Alastair Sim) happened at the time to be stalking a capercaillie in the gorse, saw the thing go flying by, and nigh jumped out of his baggy tweeds. In no time at all, Geordie was winding up for his first throw at the Drumfechan games...
Negroes. Mary Laird, daughter of West Virginia's William Laird, attended Western High with 77 Negroes, while the daughter of Texas' Lyndon Johnson went to Murch with four...