Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Philosopher Forbes had even more reason than usual to radiate happiness. In his green, musty, picture-plastered office on Manhattan's lower Fifth Avenue, he was busy autographing first editions of his eleventh book, Little Bits About Big Men. In a heavy Scotch burr he admitted that real credit for its appearance was due to his 73-year-old housekeeper, Mary Cordner, who for years had deplored the fact that all of his five sons but the last (12-year-old Wallace) had had books dedicated to them. B. C. could not withstand such an argument indefinitely...
...wouldn't be so silly as to cancel my subscription, probably because I'm Scotch; but if you must be funny, let's have a joke page and let the rest be facts. There's too much poison-pen stuff from Dorothy Parker and Pegler, without your taking a hand...
Nelson R. Gidding '41, owns the University's largest collection of Scotch plaid ties, with an assortment of 260 varieties. Noted as an expert on many Scotch products, Gidding can tell a Hunting Fraser from a Dress Campbell at a glance. He as also known as one of the College's talented young writers...
...gained speed, whistled as it raced toward the East. The Willkie Special was headed for home; the campaign tour that had led through the Southwest, up the Pacific Coast, was half over. The correspondents in the press lounge and the dining car, their stories already filed, argued over their Scotch & sodas-about the Third Term, the merits of Roosevelt and Willkie, the size and meaning of the crowds, the effect of Willkie on them-until their voices grew hoarse with contention, as the candidate's grew husky with campaigning. Tired after eleven days of travel, variously afflicted with colds...
...Mass, blacksmith, Joe Martin began his career 50 years ago peddling papers. He turned down a scholarship at Dartmouth to go to work as a reporter, finally bought minority ownership of the North Attleboro Chronicle. With a sudden passion for politics, he got himself elected to the Massachusetts Legislature. Scotch-Irish, he talked a familiar language in Massachusetts. In 1925 he went to Congress, where he still perches -in appearance a typical small-town New England politician-scrupulous, honest, popular, potent...