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...TIME of Jan. 31, under PEOPLE you report the fact that Sir Harry MacLennan Lauder, famous Scotch comedian, wrote from West Virginia to England in favor of Sunday observance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 14, 1927 | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

Dressed in a Scotch outfit, "real Scotch", avers the musician, he will give a performance on his piccolo surpassing the wildest dreams of his audience. Those who do not believe the accepted story of the death of Lampy's tree, are inclined to accept Bob's words that "it just doubled up with excitement when I was practising...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bob Lampoon Will Make Debut on Stage of University Theatre--To Play Piccolo in Scotch Garb | 2/11/1927 | See Source »

...What you need is a Scotch drink," sympathized the co-star of "Sunny," observing the shaky hand of the scribe, "but, considering that even the bar of the S. S. Triumphant is a fake, I can only brace you up with a Scotch joke. Have you ever heard about the Scotehman who happened to be a volunteer fireman in his native village...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nothing Is Wet About S.S. "Triumphant" Says Sunny Jack Donahue-Philosophizes Amid Falling Scenic Smokestacks | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

...vacant, management was stupid, fashion languished. The krone, dropping dizzily, turned today's newly-rich bourgeois into tomorrow's bankrupt. Theatres closed or gave dull plays with inept actors. Tens of thousands of Viennese apartments stood vacant. Viennese husbands moped; without the competition of smart Jewesses, their wives wore Scotch tweeds, Alpine woollens, no cosmetics. The tearful partings of polyracial relatives only faintly reflected the hardships suffered later by ladies of joy, jewelers, restaurateurs, bartenders. The newspapers became colorless. Gone even from politics was the zest, the vivifying friction of the Aryans' perfect complements in life, the Semites. Poverty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notes: Non-Fiction | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...Scotch and gin as I hold mine...

Author: By R. L. W., | Title: THE CRIME | 1/13/1927 | See Source »

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