Word: scot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...multiple identities: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Wonder Man). In Riviera, he is a delight in all his roles. As the French ladykiller, he plays straight with just the right elegant swagger. As the American, he clowns and clogs through impersonations of Maurice Chevalier, Carmen Miranda, a kilted Scot, a puppet, a Spanish dancer and, of course, the fashionable Frenchman...
Ironically, the man appointed by the government to boss the state's fledgling Iron & Steel Corp., which will run the industry, had been one of the stars of British free enterprise. Steven Hardie, a brawny, 65-year-old Scot, had risen from an obscure position as a chartered accountant in Glasgow to captain of industry (scrap-metal tycoon, oxygen-tank manufacturer). He owned, among other properties, five farms in Australia and one in Rhodesia, a mansion in London's Mayfair. Known as a tough taskmaster, Hardie likes to relax with a good cigar, slips away as often...
...first glance, Mr. Mac is no man to be a college president, and Reed is the last place that should have him. The MacNaughton administration is the marriage of a blustery, conservative Scot ("I'm a Republican with a move on") and a stiffly intellectual campus with a reputation for lively, even leftish,* political liberalism...
True Love's Mating. The Prospero of Author Godden's piece is a Scot named van Loomis, the onetime Earl of Spey, who has been done out of his estates and perquisites by a younger brother; these 20 years he has been living as lord of a tiny Pacific isle, Terraqueous. He has his Ariel there too, the "tricksy spirit" of his bidding, a native boy named Filipino, for whom "freedom" would be a chance to explore the fascinating vistas he has glimpsed in old copies of LIFE and Vanity Fair. And the new Prospero has his Caliban...
...Tampa's municipal offices were taken over by a slate of candidates supported by Tampa's underworld. Newton sent out a squad of his staffers to find out how the election had been swung. Led by Reporter Jock Murray, a well-groomed, Nova Scotia-born Scot who looks more like a Wall Street banker than a crusading newsman, the Tribune's men put together a series of 16 stories exposing Tampa's gambling and crime syndicate. The Tribune found that the syndicate had poured $100,000 into the election...