Word: scot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scottish college graduates who conspire to liberate the Stone, but are exposed at the last moment. Said jubilant Author Mackenzie last week: "I hope I may have given good advice to the young men who carried out this successful effort and shown them what to avoid ... No patriotic Scot could help having a feeling of elation." Mysterious stickers appeared on Glasgow shop fronts: "Would you keep stolen property in YOUR church...
...Times had called the theft "a coarse and vulgar crime," and the BBC had banned all jokes mentioning the Stone, including the remark that no Scot could have taken the Stone because no Scot would have left a wrist watch behind. Said the Manchester Guardian: "Need we English be much wounded by the loss of the Stone, if it is never recovered? We have a far better and more respectable one of our own, the King's Stone, now at Kingston-on-Thames, on which the Saxon Kings were crowned...
...Exchequer, asked British companies to hold down dividends to combat inflation. Since his order would cut sharply into Iran's royalties, Anglo-Iranian, looking for a justified protest from Teheran, quickly offered to revise the 1933 agreement. Razor-sharp Board Chairman Sir William Eraser, a grey, gaunt Scot who runs his own show, journeyed to Teheran, and a compromise was reached in July 1949. It provided for raising Iran's oil revenues sharply. For example, under the new terms, Iran's 1948 royalties would amount to ?18,700,000, compared to ?9,200,000 under...
...Commons, turning the mudlark's adventure into an affair of state. Most of the time, however, Guinness plays with a mincing air that suggests Richard Haydn's caricature of an over-prim Englishman. The Mudlark owes its best performances to Finlay Currie, playing an outspoken, sozzled old Scot in the Queen's service, and eleven-year-old Actor Ray, who is altogether winning as the grimy orphan who wants a peek at the mother of the British Empire...
...Hasty Heart. The year's best adaptation from the stage; a moving, tender story, edged with humor, about a dying, misanthropic young Scot (Richard Todd) who finds friendship in a Burma army hospital (TIME...