Word: scotch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...James Young Simpson (1811-1870), Scotch, was an influential champion of surgical anesthesia and of chloroform...
John Hunter (1728-1793), Scotch anatomist and surgeon, taught students to observe nature; worked on immunity and rivalry of diseases, on dissection...
...were four papillons (little spaniels rechristened by the French because their alert bearing and erect ears reminded poetic fanciers of a butterfly). There was one blue-blooded pug, last survivor of a breed that once prowled in every lady's chamber. There were hundreds of airdales, Dobermann pinschers, sealinghams, Scotch terriers, bulldogs, griffons, sheepdogs, collies, setters, pointers, springer spaniels, foxhounds. But among them only a few received the accolade of a brave azure ribbon which, fluttering for a moment from a studded collar, denoted perfection of body, unchallengeable integrity of blood...
Arrived at London, the Prince did indeed partake of dinner?"a dinner of sorts." For some months he has been under the care of Dr. John Weir, noted Scotch homeopathist, who is said to have "mercilessly cut down his usual diet," caused him to abandon "the two extremes of dining, soup and cigars," and restricted him to "four denicotinized cigarets per day" and no wine or spirits until dinner time ?all this because Edward has allegedly found himself "growing nervous...
Captain Ernest Ingram, famed divorced husband of the widow of Enrico Caruso, dashed out upon the floor and gave vent to a "Scotch Highland Charleston...