Word: scotch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Phillips Brooks House Association will hold its customary informal Open House entertainment tomorrow evening from 7 o'clock to 10 o'clock. The program will include Scotch dialect readings by Miss Elizabeth Buchanan, and Negro selections by Miss Mamie Jones, both from the Emerson College of Oratory. Piano recitals, violin solos, a prestidigitation act, and vocal solos complete the program...
...prohibition beverage" securities, however, are not so much, competitors of alcoholic drinks or supplanters as accessories thereto. If bootlegging were suddenly abolished, many temperance-drink companies would be hurt rather than helped, since much of the present demand for their products arises from the desire of consumers of green Scotch whisky to mitigate its "iodine" and "nicotine" taste...
...contest the Yale backfield was under oath to kick anything over the bar that wasn't imported, to send every pass out to the sidelines, and to kill all the Scotch on the field. The Harvard team swallowed hard but made no statement. It was fortunate that none was asked for, Harvard was thinking of the Old Army Game...
...shortly appeared that in championing Sidney Webb as Lord Rector of Glasgow, Mr. Shaw had drawn himself forcibly to the attention of students at another large seat of Scotch learning. With acclaim a potent faction at St. Andrews University-nominated him for their Lord Rectorship. John Galsworthy, famed playwright-author has been nominated as his opponent...
...Wedderburn, who is well above six feet in height, is a native of Scotland. He holds the title of Hereditary Standard Bearer for Scotland, which allows him to carry the Scotch standard at coronation ceremonies. This honor has been held by his ancestors since 1107. His college is Balliol, and he prepared at Winchester. Politically he is a Conservative, the only one of the trio. Cricket is his sport, but he is not a "Blue...