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Word: morag (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1957-1957
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...London to take over the battalion. A "poor wee laddie," who is colder than Flora MacDonald,* he had spent the war in British intelligence. Which colonel will command the battalion-Jock or this Barrow boy? Jock is handicapped not only by a mistress but a prim Presbyterian daughter named Morag who is in love with a corporal-piper. The newcomer makes the fatal mistake of issuing regulations on how the Highland officers should perform their own wild dances. The climax is as grim and subtle as is proper to a race which could take its whisky along with the hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tragedy in Tartan | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

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