Word: scotch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whose wires, pipes and transit lines blanket the nation's sixth richest manufacturing State, has small trouble with its legislators and public utilities commissioners. It bumped into trouble eight years ago, however, when it set out to run a high-tension line through a colony of Poles at Scotch Plains. Some Poles squeezed fancy prices from P. S. C. for their land or permission to string wires across it. But one of them, a small truck gardener and U. S. Army veteran named John Crempa, was against the wires at any price. One crisp morning last week some...
...they had done to win so much praise. A small boy who was collecting the paper craft was advised to go out into the field to pick them up, or at least to ask the gentleman in white to hand them to him. "Kings Ransom the World's Best Scotch", outlined in crimson against the blue vaults of the heavens, attracted a few bleary eyes. But on the field, even the doodlebug tricks of the invaders as they entered the arena left the spectators cold...
...sheriff found himself unable to make the arrest. The entire Polish community of Scotch Plains joined the conspiracy to warn Crempa of the approach of the sheriff's officers. The sheriff disguised his men as a surveying party. The ruse worked but the neighbors, armed with brooms, rakes and stones, tore Crempa out of the hands of the deputy sheriffs. Crempa sat alertly at a second-floor window of his neat, brown-shingled house, watching the approaches and doing home piecework for another tailor. His son took a job in a riding academy. Crempa's plump, brisk Wife...
...magnificent sight. Imported from England and reared at the famed Bellhaven Kennels in Red Bank. N. J. by energetic Mrs. Florence B. Ilch, No. 1 U. S. collie breeder, he was judged best of breed at Westminster from 1930 to 1934. But many a layman, remembering the smart, friendly Scotch collies of his youth, has deplored the breeding trend which gave Lucason his looks. Aiming at a long, narrow, chiseled muzzle and skull collie fanciers have crossed their dog with the Russian wolfhound. According to oldtime collie-lovers, they have bred out the dog's brains, made...
...previous expedition, Mr. Lake had an equally unpleasant experience. A sudden heat wave overlook him and his party far from camp. A wee nip of Scotch was proposed to lessen the ravages of climate. The suggestion was approved. A bottle was produced, opened,--and dropped with disgust. The servants had packed vinegar by mistake...