Word: scotch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following a traditional custom, 11 yachts in three different classes started from Scotch Caps, off Milton Point, in Rye, New York, last Wednesday evening, in the American Yacht Club's eighth annual overnight race to the scene of the festivities of the Harvard Yale rowing regatta in New London...
...suddenly overwhelmed with an infinite loneliness, space rolled away from him in vast undulating planes of smoke and he seemed to be lifted in a cradle of other bearing him up and up until he thought he would burst. Far below him he saw his friends pouring Scotch into opaque glasses and sometimes just pouring Scotch. He saw himself standing alone on a great platform in a black gown and a mortar board. There was no one about. No crowds, no mothers, no girls, nothing...
...Hawaii despite a change in the law included Rufus Hagood, Honolulu physician; William B. Pittman, Honolulu lawyer, brother of Nevada's Key Pittman who is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Delbert E. Metger, chairman of last year's territorial Democratic convention, and John H. Wilson, Scotch-Irish-Tahitian-Hawaiian who, at the age of 12, used to polish guns in the royal Hawaiian armory...
...Willie Macfarlane, 43-year-old Scotch golf professional who beat Bobby Jones in a play-off for the Open in 1925 and has lately been so discouraged by his putting that he contemplated retiring: the Metropolitan Open, with 291 for four rounds; at Mamaroneck, N. Y. Olin Dutra, defending champion, made a hole-in-one on his third round, came in fourth with...
...Holmes. When he was a young man, Ernest Torrence planned to be a musician. He wrote the music for a play called The Lady from Lyons, was first baritone for the Savoy Opera Company in London. His lanky 6-ft. 4-in. physique, tufted eyebrows, gargoyle nose and prickly Scotch burr soon made him a popular, villain. His first cinema, in 1912, was a talkie: an experimental version of Faust made at the Edison laboratories. His whiskers became really famed in the U. S. after Tol'able David, in which he was a Kentucky feudist with a homicidal mania...