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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Auld Hornie, nae sooner is the lad in Oban than he spies a paughty lass wi' a weel-rounded doup. Och. but when he attempts to hae a crack wi' her, she snashes him back an' ca's him nae mair than a bluntie blellum. The neist lass he meets is a scroggie auld scaul' that snowks him out for a slidd'ry jaukiner from Ireland bent on houghmagandie (or waur), an' she gaes scraichin' to the bobbie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Blype o' Clishmaclaver | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...rules of the game were laid down long ago by Mair, the hantan hero-god who lives in the blue sky (which is solid, and rests on the circular rim of the earth like a blue derby). Mair used to make all human beings in a pot, but one day a silly woman walked past one of the pots and peeked into it-ruining a half-made baby. Mair was so angry that he picked up the fetus and threw it in the woman's belly. "That'll teach you to be inquisitive," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Under the Blue Derby | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

...PAULINE MAIR...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 28, 1956 | 5/28/1956 | See Source »

When I mount the creepie-chair,* Wha will sit beside me there? Gie me Rob, I'll seek nae mair, The rantin dog, the daddie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Never Gallop Alone | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

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