Word: scotch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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THIS very small book-really a book let-of some 90 pages contains about a score of short essays on subjects of a diverse nature, ranging from asparagus to goats in Italy and Scotch terriers in this country. The papers, so the jacket vouches are reprinted from "The Piper," the Publishers' monthly bulletin on books...
...scotch these attacks, Ambassador Cravioto insinuated, last week, that they were made by Mme. Kollontay out of feminine spite "because General Calles has systematically ordered the expulsion of all foreign propagandists of communistic ideas from Mexico...
...Zaharoff had written down all his obscure and enormous conquests, his dark and perhaps reprehensible maneuvers, there followed a great curiosity to see the book in which they were notated. Men tried to buy it, to beg it, to steal it. Last week a publisher offered Zaharoff's Scotch servant $10,000 for the diary of his master to whom the servant immediately reported this attempted bribery...
George Sutherland, 65, born in Buckinghamshire, England, and put on the high bench by President Harding. He spent his boyhood and young-lawyer's life in Utah, until sent to Congress. He is sometimes confused with a Scotch-Canadian namesake who, a good Baptist minister and college president, campaigns for the Anti-Saloon League in Nebraska. But not often, for he takes care to give "c/o Supreme Court of the U. S." as his address, in Who's Who, and wears a short beard of silver-tipped distinction. He is usually to be found on the vested-rights...
...placed in me." To close friends, he voiced regret at being obliged to leave his Minneapolis home for Washington. He has grown fond of the Minnikahda Golf Club*; where he has often swung along the course at a business-like clip, as likely as not telling jokes about his Scotch ancestors. "The only thing my Scotch blood doesn't make me close about is my golf score. I'm not at all stingy about that. If I shoot 100, I feel I'm playing an excellent game for me. I love golf." He likes duck shooting...