Word: scotch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aintree-of-Cleveland members are Railroaders Frank and C. Farrand Taplin, President E. J. Kulas of Otis Steel Co., K. L. Grennan of cake and cooky fame, Robert Calfee of the Peerless Motor Car Co. and A. C. Ernst of Ernst and Ernst. Head riding master is Joe Glenday, Scotch as the heather, small of stature, lover of horses. New-Aintree also has a junior polo team, winner of local tilts...
President Hoover last week ordered out of commission the U.S.S. Mayflower to save $300,000 annual maintenance and to send nine officers and 148 men back to regular naval duty. Scotch built in 1896, she was purchased by the U.S. from the estate of Ogden Goelet for $480,000 for Spanish War service. President Roosevelt first used her as an official yacht, as did all his successors. President Hoover is no yachtsman...
When practical English and Scotch generals were inclined to have their doubts, General Foch would confute them thus...
...doted on the smelt-fishing. At twelve he was racing his own little boats and, soon after, sailing with Capt. Crocker on the sloop Shadow. Then came his string of "oo" boats-Papoose (1887), Babboon (35-footer), Gossoon (40-footer) in which he beat Capt. Charles Barr in the Scotch cutter Minerva; Harpoon (1892) in which he won the Goelet Cup at Newport; and the Rooster and Crooner. He is a stern skipper; his own son calls him "Mister Adams" on shipboard...
...Girl on the Barge (Universal). A director with more interest in his material and with a better cast could have made a fine picture out of a hard-drinking, Scotch barge-captain's opposition to his daughter's romance with a deckhand. Indifferent, however, to life spun out in slow journeys up and down canals, or perhaps discouraged by Actress Sally O'Neill's coyness and Actor Malcolm MacGregor's self-possession, the producers of this picture combine mediocre photography with choppy storytelling. Worst shot: studio tank vexed by a wind-machine to indicate...