Word: scotch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scotch and what you will...
...able to produce with almost unfailing regularity a handsome and convincing tale of the high adventure. On the other hand, remembering that he spent considerable time in South Africa after taking his degree, and travelled over Europe as a special corespondent and possesses an abiding love for the Scotch moors, his flare for the romantic is not so astonishing...
...school. Less than 25 years ago Miss Berry, Southern gentlewoman, taught Sunday School to "po' whites" of the mountain district in northwest Georgia. From this grew Berry school, unique, appealing. In the mountains of the South were 4,000,000 impoverished, illiterate descendants of sturdy English-Scotch stock. Their ancestors, not wealthy enough to own slaves, did well as farmers while the original fertility of soil remained. Ignorant of modern refertilization, they grew so poor as to be ignorant of everything else. Miss Berry now mothers 700 of them a year, 500 boys, 200 girls, who build their...
Tobias George Smollett, the doctor who looked at an dwrote about various aspects of life of the eighteenth century, was born in Dumbartonshire, a Scotch county in the year 1721. At the age of fifteen he was apprenticed to a surgeon of Glasgow, but three years later, following the example of Thomson, set forth for England with his first and worst literary venture "The Regicide...
Ours is an old English line, with a mixture of Scotch. In late years, it is only fair to say, there has been less and less of the English and more and more of the scotch. Why, only last night--but this is the story of my ancestors. I was speaking of those noble Forecast sires who, from generation unto generation, has passed the Forecast name to noble Forecast sons, and with never an incompleted pass...