Word: scotch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ambassador Herrick praised the genius of Mrs. Whitney and then went on to "scotch the lie" that the U. S. is becoming a greedy materialist instead of the idealist who entered the war. He finished by quoting Byron: Here's a sigh to those who love me And a smile to those who hate; And whatever sky's above me Here's a heart for every fate...
...Great Valley?Mary Johnston ($2). Scotch settlers in a magnificent panorama of the Shenandoah Valley...
...GREAT VALLEY?Mary Johnston?Little, Brown ($2). Here is one of the biggest canvases of the year, a high and deep wilderness panorama, the Great Valley or Shenando Country?New Virginia, as they called it, whither John Selkirk came with his family to have the God of his Scotch fathers in peace. Historical fidelity and great narrative sweep are executive abilities of the author, who came to fame in 1900 with To Have and to Hold, and last year scored with another novel of early Virginia, The Slave Ship...
...Merry Merry" is, in fact, preeminently a dancing show. It is for her dancing that Miss Marle Saxon has, temporarily at least, usurped that corner of this Senior's mind ostensibly reserved for the Scotch imitators of Chaucer. When she sang, in a pleasingly pretty fashion, we found our inner brain pondering, despite ourselves, on the virtues of Dryden's prose style. When she spoke, in a delightfully mellifluous drawl, we could not entirely forget the family life of Milton, but when she danced--divisionals, oh yes, when does that examination come, and if so, what...
...13th of 15 children born to a Scotch-English farmer of Lancaster, Mass. Crossed in love in his twenties, he turned his back upon the girl and went to California, where he hired himself out to farmers until able to acquire land of his own at Santa Rosa. In 1881, his small nursery business leapt to great proportions when a banker asked, in the spring, to have 20,000 prune trees for fall planting. Young Burbank bought almond seeds, sprouted them, grafted prune buds to the sprouts and delivered 20,000 prune shoots for the banker's fall planting...