Word: scotch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Good Scotch Bootleg for a spree...
...theatre and a collection of the plays from which its scenes derive; Charles Spencer Chaplin, cinema comedian, lightens with one his melancholy hours; G. K. Chesterton, paradoxhund, is said to play with one while thinking out his articles. Many are preserved in Jacobean farmhouses, in Tudor mansions, in dour Scotch castles, in London palaces...
...There was once a Scotch parson who said in a sermon. 'And now, my brethren, we come to a varry deeficult passage ; and having looked it bowldly in the face, we will pass on.' His talents were wasted in the Church. He should have gone in for operatic management...
...genuine Scotchman, Edinburgh born and bred, will play the role of MacGregor, a Scotch character, in "The Scarlet Coat", the musical comedy which is to be given by members of the Princeton Triangle Club at the Boston Opera House on Saturday evening...
...love interest is supplied in the part of Charline, the daughter of MacGregor, the Scotch facteur of the Hudson Bay Company's post at Koyokuk. In the character of Secret W. Service, the anaemic poet of the northland, is offered an opportunity for rich satire upon literature dealing with the "great open spaces...