Word: scot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Motors Corp., this gruff Scot roared: "I have no objection at all to selling arms to both sides-I am not a purist in these matters...
NEVER SAY DIE - John Paton - Longmans, Green ($2.50). The engaging autobiography of an Aberdeen Scot, onetime general secretary of Britain's Independent Labor Party from which he resigned...
...Andrew Carnegie had been alive last week he would have felt richly rewarded for having given Manhattan a fine concert hall. Great music was played there by the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Boston Symphony, the New York Philharmonic. Another impressive concert commemorated the 100th birthday of the bearded little Scot who made such hearings possible. With music of a different calibre there was a newcomer at Carnegie Hall last week. She was Edith Lorand, trim, dark-haired Hungarian who fiddles and conducts an orchestra simultaneously...
Playing skirts on a bagpipe that has been in the Carnegie family for 40 years, sporting kilts and the black, green and plum Carnegie tartan, barrel-chested Hugh Grant arrived in Manhattan to take part in the 100th anniversary of Andrew Carnegie's birth. Since 1921 Scot Grant has been official bagpiper at the Carnegies' Skibo Castle, has mounted the battlements every summer morning at 7:45 sharp to pipe Johnnie Cope, Are Ye Awakin'? Given time to pose for cameramen, to announce in a thick brogue, "Yes, I met Mr. Carnegie when he used to give...
...hear arguments ... is more than stupid. It is bad." Demos continued, however, to boo Stanley's friend Ramsay off the boards and the only speech Mr. MacDonald was able to finish last week he made in a soundproof broadcasting studio at Newcastle. Beside himself with worry, the pathetic Scot seemed to forget that it was Ramsay MacDonald who insisted on running at Seaham against the advice of friends & colleagues and blurted to a sympathetic wellwisher: "The National Government should never have put a candidate here. It will be a miracle if I am elected...