Word: lomond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...place of a plot, The Lonely has a situation. Flak-happy Liberator Pilot Jerry Wright takes a two-week leave from his air base in England and goes off to Scotland with Patches, a mousy, grey-eyed little WAAF. After a week of shacking up in the Loch Lomond country, Jerry finds himself desperately in love with Patches, desperately out of love with his "healthily beautiful, loving, young, vigorous, clear-eyed, innocent, sexless and inexperienced" fiancee back on Long Island.To straighten out this situation and break his engagement in a face-to-face encounter, he hops the Atlantic without papers...
...Government lobby, members chorused Scotland's Loch Lomond, Yorkshire's On Ilkley Moor and the Welsh Cwm Rhondda. But when jubilant Laborites swung their voices into Socialism's anthem, The Red Flag, Tory Sir Gifford Fox rose in angry protest. Laborites shouted, "It's May Day," and pointed to the clock; it had ticked past midnight. The Speaker announced that he had no jurisdiction over what the honorable members might sing in the lobbies...
When they weren't building, plastering or painting, the Americans cycled around the countryside, doing odd jobs wherever they stopped. In Paris 30 hostelers were invited to Schiaparelli's for tea, showed up unabashed in seersucker dresses and dungarees. At Scotland's Loch Lomond (they took the low road) some of them met the German founder of the Hostel movement, 73-year-old Richard Schirrmann. He had been almost blinded when the Nazis tied him to a cross and sprayed his face with tear gas for defying them...
...warm night this summer Barney ordered the band to fanfare Loch Lomond. A chubby little Alice-in-Wonderland, carrying a pint-sized harp, skipped to the platform and hopped to a high yellow-leathered stool. A white spot picked up a white face, surrounded by carrot hair which fell halfway to the girl's waist. Said she: "This is an Irish harp. With it I will sing you a very tiny song...
...sending me that phonograph record of "The Star Spangled Banner" . . . we now have our public address system working much better at colors . . . maybe except for that chipped part that we covered with SCOTCH tape . . . once in a while on Monday mornings we can detect a bit of "Loch Lomond" blending in . . . or is it the scotch in me? . . . Speaking of music, Company Baker is having a bit of music trouble now with the thought of moving ashore next month for they will have to find a new place for the North Matthews "Swing Band" . . . anyplace that they do pick...