Word: scotch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story amounts to the candid, cluttered journal of Captain Georges Hamlet Alexander Diabologh, a young man born in Japan of Russian-Scotch-Spanish-Italian-English-Finnish-Swedish ancestry. He is an Oxford intellectual, serious-minded, he feels, but is engaged for the present with a Major Percy Beastly on a mission to Manchuria for the British War Office. In the life of Georges Hamlet Alexander Diabologh, wars and missions are very unimportant indeed: He spends a lot of time thinking about Life and Death, writing or making jokes about them. Nothing is very important...
...During President Harding's regime, desk trinkets included: an ash tray on which stood a miniature Scotch golfer in knickers with two life-sized golf bal's at his feet, samples of shingles, little cowbells, a picture of his mother...
Miss Anderson testified that, at Guantanamo, she received a package as a gift from a friend; she did not open it, but packed it in her chest on her return to this country. A customs inspector at Norfolk opened the chest, the package, found seven quart bottles-gin, rye, Scotch, Bacardi, crème de menthe. Said her counsel: "The court may wonder why her woman's curiosity did not cause her to look into the package, but her testimony is unimpeached." In 15 minutes, the court acquitted...
Bowdoin College remembers Donald MacMillan as the member of '98 who shinnied up the lightning rod on King's Chapel spire to tear clown a flag that had been hoisted in derision of his class. Adventurous, athletic, he loved the sea where his Scotch grandfathers had sailed, where his father was lost when Donald was 9. He would talk of going some day to the North Pole and made a collection of books on the Arctic during the years when he was successively principal of a Maine preparatory school, a classics instructor near Philadelphia and a physical director...
...calculated that 150,000,000 salmon eggs are annually deposited in the Scotch river Tay, of which only 100,000 live to be salmon; 70,000 of these are caught...