Word: scotchman
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...third portrait is that of an Old Scotchman, seated at ease by his books. Raeburn has put personal character in every line, using strong lights and deep shadows and marked features. Detail work is avoided, except in the treatment of the head and of the books. Brushwork is done in the same manner, in crisp, bold planes. The result is a wise and kindly gentleman, painted with elegance and charm...
...Edison laboratories. His whiskers became really famed in the U. S. after Tol'able David, in which he was a Kentucky feudist with a homicidal mania. When he heard that $1,000 salaries for actors were common in Hollywood; Ernest Torrence said: "Talk like that makes a Scotchman intoxicated." He had just completed I Cover the Waterfront, started home to visit his brothers in Edinburgh when he died. Critics considered his posthumous performance one of his finest...
...these were the opposing forces which shaped the life of Thomas Carlyle. The land tore the veils from his vision, made him a poet and a seer--the other involved him in a nebulous World-Idea and a style of tortured courage. Never did one man, and a lone Scotchman, strive to embody in himself ideals so contradictory--guessing like a child about Mirabeau, about Lafayette, and guessing rightly, but struggling with words and phrases which stretched like impossible pagodas into a German sky. Stormy, ill-tempered, tenacious to truth and error alike, once he had spoken...
BRUCE Lockhart, an impulsive young Scotchman with a fondness for lovely ladies and a sense of humor, was Lloyd George's "schoolboy ambassador" to Lenin and Trotsky when their government was young. Women and Bolsheviks were his weakness. He relates in "British Agent" his narrow escapes from both with such frankness that one feels throughout the book the added thrill of truth...
Friends of Scotland apparently intend to carry out no reprisals for the traditional Scotchman's reluctance to part with his cash. Plans have been formed by the American loan Society to raise a ten million dollar fund for the establishment of a Gaelic University in the Scottish Highlands. The university's chief function would be to preserve the Gaelic language and culture...