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...Best known bearded Scot: Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, author of travel books, persistent kilt wearer, onetime M. P. (1886-92), ardent Scotch nationalist...
...Dorothy Gish) that they separate for a week, he hopes to encounter adventure. Instead he encounters a wench whose Junior League manners lead him to believe that, like the Smiths' governess and cook, she is a depression product, too good for her position. Ellen Smith encounters a pleasant Scotch explorer with a deep burr, who, while he seduces her, teaches her the proper way to brew tea. When the Smiths reassemble, Ellen wears a wise smile but Henry's relief at being home outweighs his curiosity...
...Board's selection of Harold George Campbell the Mayor cocked his jaw, remarked grimly: "I hope he'll cooperate. ... He should cooperate. . . . He will have to co-operate." Said Superintendent-designate Campbell: "It goes without saying. . . ." A past master of co-operation must be a Scotch-Presbyterian-Republican who could rise to power and a $20,000-a-year job in a school system ridden by Irish- Catholic-Democratic politics. Nobody is fooled by the independent location of the Board of Education's dingy old headquarters on Park Avenue at 59th Street some three miles north...
...with interest your journal published today (TIME, Dec. 4), and on reading through, I came across a statement which is absolutely incorrect and which will be resented by every Irishman in Ireland. The statement to which I refer is- 'Irish starts with barley but particular Irishmen always drink Scotch. Scotch also starts with barley but the ingredients are better, notably its water." As Chairman of the Board of Directors of one of the large Irish Free State distilleries, and one of the Board of Directors of another Irish Free State distillery, who incidentally are the largest Pot Still distillers...
...Ambassador Saito they will have a spokesman who can laugh as meaningfully as President Roosevelt himself. In many of the world's capitals "Saito parties" are familiar to the diplomatic set. There is always plenty of rice wine and champagne, plenty of Scotch whiskey, plenty of noise. A great hostess, Mrs. Saito is a daughter of the Court Physician of Japan's greatest Emperor, the late Meiji...