Word: scotch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only a few hours after she has professed her love for him. This round-robbin reaches a climax at her coming out party when she runs off with the capricious Jimmy after she learns that Chris has gone on a tour to Europe. He is returned by Troon, a Scotch butler admirably portrayed by Nigel Bruce and only after more rigmarole is the inevitable happy ending reached...
...every distiller knows, all Scotch whiskey is blended. So is Scots dialect. A blend not only of pungent Scots dialect and plain English but of symphony and satire, low comedy and drama that sometimes aspires to the tragic, Cloud Howe is a malty, fairly intoxicating brew. Author ''Lewis Grassic Gibbon" (J. Leslie Mitchell, British historian and archeologist) has already written one book about his heroine (Sunset Song), will write one more, but Cloud Howe stands sturdily enough alone...
There was Haseltine's first champion job, King George V's own shire stallion, Field, Marshal V, modeled in 1921 when he was still a prize winner. Red and sleek in Acajou marble was the magnificent champion Shorthorn bull, Bridgebank Pay master, winner of the British and Scotch championships three years, in a row. A Hereford bull champion, Twyford Fairy Boy, with grey-green coat of gold plated bronze, stood 18 in. high, 30 in. from rump to horns. There were two Lincoln rams, their fleece rendered in coarse-grained Burgandy stone. The great Middle White champion boar...
...Dorothy Gish) that they separate for a week, he hopes to encounter adventure. Instead he encounters a wench whose Junior League manners lead him to believe that, like the Smiths' governess and cook, she is a depression product, too good for her position. Ellen Smith encounters a pleasant Scotch explorer with a deep burr, who, while he seduces her, teaches her the proper way to brew tea. When the Smiths reassemble, Ellen wears a wise smile but Henry's relief at being home outweighs his curiosity...
...showed good casting sense. Dorothy Gish looks younger than she is (36). Howard Lindsay, who dramatized the season's successful comedy, She Loves Me Not, has not acted since he played the scenario writer in Dulcy (1921). Kenneth MacKenna, who is currently being divorced by Kay Francis, sounds Scotch and specializes in Scottish roles, but his real name is Leo Mielziner Jr. His brother Jo designed the set of a spacious country living room that helps to make By Your Leave a comfortably familiar knickknack...