Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These are the main facts of my mother's personal history. She was born of Scotch parents recently arrived at Burlington, Vt., in 1821. Her early life was spent at Troy, N. Y., and New York City. Married to William Shields in 1846, she was mother of a large and active family in the Middle West in a time deeply affected by the Civil War. She died after a brief illness of pneumonia in 1883. A devout member of the Presbyterian Church of which her brother, Alexander Duncan, was the minister, her activities outside her home were largely given...
...after day, practically without vacations, he carries on the pace. By nightfall his nerves are in knots. Formerly he used to take a few drinks of straight whiskey in order to relax. Nowadays his friends have persuaded him to substitute Scotch highballs as easier on the stomach. The liquor serves no purpose except to relax him. Usually he then has a dinner engagement, maybe several more engagements during the evening, but he likes to get home as early as possible to romp with his two adopted children, to see his wife who used to be his secretary when...
Bottle after bottle of Scotch whiskey was emptied as Edinburgh settled down to its biggest party in years. For Queen Elizabeth, daughter of the Scottish Earl of Strathmore, her homecoming was a triumph. As she reviewed ex-service men, 84-year-old ex-Sergeant George Alexander greeted her with a rich burr: "You're a bonnie lassie. I wish I'd courted you mysel...
...biennial Cup matches in England last week Captain Walter Hagen boldly picked his U. S. professionals to win, was so confident that he ventured to predict the score: 8-to-4. To oppose Great Britain's topflight Golfers Henry Cotton and Alf Padgham in the opening "Scotch foursome" (partners hitting alternate strokes) he thereupon picked not Tony Manero and Ralph Guldahl, U. S. Open champions for 1936 and 1937, but Byron Nelson, 25-year-old one-time Texas railroad clerk, and seasoned Ed Dudley...
Invented by Scotch shepherds, golf in the U.S. has been inherited by many Italian day laborers' sons, who caddied on the courses their fathers tended. Guldahl is the first ex-caddie of Norwegian descent to develop top-flight golfing talent. Reared in Texas, Guldahl's talents in the past have sometimes seemed misplaced. After his tragic putt in 1933 which, if it had gone into the cup, would have made him a national celebrity, he speedily lost prestige. In 1935 he failed even to make a living out of golf, took to selling automobiles and working...