Word: scotch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prices. The Government Liquor Commission will establish prices. Forecast: Scotch $7 Canadian whiskey $5; beer $2. Beer will be sold at cost; wines and whiskeys at a profit...
William Holmes McGuffey, born in Washington County, Pa., in 1800, son of an Indian scout of Scotch descent, attended the Old Stone Academy at Darlington, Pa., and .Washington College. He won fame as "mental philosopher" of Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) and at Ohio University (then as now at Athens, Ohio) and the University of Virginia. He formulated Ohio's school laws, organized Ohio's teachers; married twice, "preached 3,000 sermons but never wrote one"* and was as famed in person as in publication...
...Davison, conductor Give a Rouse Bantock Hark All Ye Lovely Saints Wellkes Four Choruses from "Patience" Sullivan A Midsummer Night's Dream, suite Mendelssohn "Fountains of Rome," Symphonic Poem Respighi The Harvard Glee Club Glorious Apollo Webbe Two English Folk Songs Ar. by Williams and Holst The Hundred Pipers Scotch Folk Song Finale, from "Die Meistersinger" Wagner Bacchanale from "Tannahaeuser" Wagner Prelude to "Lohengrin" Wagner Introduction to Act III, "Lohengrin" Wagner
...Philip D. Armour I learned that men were finding raw gold in California. He went there, walking a considerable part of the way, riding a mule the balance. Exertion did him no harm, for the Armours have always been brawny, after their first U. S, progenitor, James Armour, Scotch-Irishman. James Armour came to the American colonies in the 18th Century, used to boast: "I was born on a Sunday morning, and baptized before eight o'clock, and the devil a bit of any disease could ever light upon me." He had eight children; his son John, nine; John...
Another rare book in the cases is the fifth edition of "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers" by Byron. This edition is extremely uncommon because he caused it to be suppressed for personal reasons, shortly after it was put upon the presses...