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...quick, deep breaths, it is said to produce effects quite similar to those of alcohol. Those who champion the superiority of alcohol point to the awesome "hang-overs" which they allege result from oxygen "jags." Others, however, deny this allegation and recommend oxygen in preference to the best Scotch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strictly Speaking | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...close of the auction, Host Fromm said he had not been "so much gratified" since the day in 1917 when the Fromm brothers paid off the mortgage on their mother's farm. Only sour note came when a Chicago buyer attempted to make off with two bottles of scotch. The Fromm brothers-President Edward, 44; Vice President Henry, 41; Treasurer Walter, 46; Secretary John, 42-got into the fox-raising business in 1909. They followed the trail of a fox & pups to the foxhole. They built a tent over the hole, stood guard till the young foxes came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Furs from .Fromms | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

...Miss Spence was the daughter of Scotch working people. Wealthy New York families started a school for her because she had been so able a governess to their children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 17, 1936 | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

...Scotch warrior set upon destroying the clan of McLaglen instead of the invading English, is blown up by a keg of powder after having dallied with a shepherdess and field ignominiously from the scions of the hated clan. For this he is condemned by his father, the head of the clan of Glouer, to wander about the ancestral castle until he, Murdoch Glouer the ghost, can tweek the beak of a McLagen and force him to admit that any fifty of his clan can be thrashed with ease by a lone Glouer...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/4/1936 | See Source »

...Scotch forces were led by King Robert the Bruce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Gentlemen, the Kings! | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

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