Word: scotch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...estate near Fairhaven, N. J., Manufacturer William Gerhard Mennen (toilet goods) was awakened at dawn by the barking of his four-month-old Scotch terrier, Scotty. He got up "to raise the devil with the dog," found his house in flames. Rousing his wife, he discovered the stairway to the servants' quarters blocked, telephoned the fire department, dashed into the kitchen to unleash the dog, rushed outdoors in his night clothes. Firemen soon arrived, rescued the unconscious servants, could not save the house. Manufacturer Mennen looked around the lawn, found Scotty lying dead of smoke suffocation...
...Johannesburg, South Africa, a Scotch goldminer saved the sediment of his baths for 20 years. When he panned the accumulation from 20 years' baths, he had 20 ounces of pure gold, worth almost...
Jubilant British distillers hoped to empty their warehouses "which are bursting with good Scotch." At the British Exchequer, officials kept mum as owls about "tariff bargaining" with President Roosevelt after next March. British gossip writers twittered that "Mrs. Roosevelt went to school in England and has many friends here...
...study is based largely upon measurements of Harvard fathers and sons of old American stock, principally of English, Scotch, Irish, and German ancestry, and includes records of 1600 pairs of fathers and sons, as well as in comparison of 541 brothers at Harvard. The scope of the study is of great magnitude, involving over 18,000 measurements, and including in its correlations the measurements of Revolutionary soldiers and sailors, the stature of Swiss, Swedish, Danish, Italian and Japanese military...
...sign hung in front of New Hampshire's executive mansion in Concord read, "Puppies for sale. Mrs. John G. Winant." Breed: West Highland White and Scotch terriers. Puppies available: 60 of both sexes. Price...