Word: milkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your Dec. 24 article, "Piping the Milk": That rumbling sound is my Scottish ancestors turning over in their graves at the inference that Highland bagpipes are "milkcurdling." Our baby daughter Linda learned to pat the plump tartan bag on my bagpipes long before she went from mother's milk. CAPT. CHESTER A. MACNEILL JR. Champion Bagpiper of Oregon Portland...
...maternal milk of lesser races be curdled. From Scottish lactation-enriched, enraptured and enkindled by the noble strains of the pipes-have sprung Bruce, Wallace, Burns and all the lengthy line of heroes, inventors, writers, settlers, engineers and surgeons who are only part of Scotland's glory...
Atget never replaced his old-fashioned camera, scorned such new photographic developments as filters, adjustable lenses and high-speed film. In his old age he lived in a bare Paris flat, ate nothing but bread, milk and an occasional lump of sugar. But he still found energy to go out each morning at dawn, lug his bulky equipment up a fountain or statue if he could get a better view. By the time he died, at 70, he had snapped his favorite city some 10,000 times, not once found her dull...
Professionally, the other Marx Brothers haven't worn nearly so well. Harpo, once the rage of several continents, has just finished a series of television commercials for a milk company; Chico does his hoary piano routine and Eyetalian dialect around nightclubs; Gummo, who quit the act for good to become a World War I doughboy, is his brothers' agent Zeppo, now out of show business altogether, manufactures airplane parts...
...confused with the milk-curdling Scottish pipes. The medieval one-cane Italian pipe had not so shrill a timbre...