Word: scotchman
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Life courses on persistently in the elder heroes of the War. Hindenburg has majestically topped 80, Foch 77, and good "Papa" Joffre 76. Early, therefore, seemed the harvest which Death reaped, last week, in striking down at 66 perhaps the greatest soldier-Scotchman, Colonel - Douglas Haig, first Earl Haig (British creation), but 29th Laird of Bemerside (Scotch), and, from 1915 onward, Commander-in-Chief of all Britannia's armies in France, famed as "Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig." Men will remember and revere him for Scotch virtues. The core of his unalterable concept...
...dreaming what the morrow held in store. Which reminds me (just why, I don't know) that a friend of mine was telling me only the other day of a little incident which befell him on an European tour. It seems that there were three men, an Irishman, a Scotchman, and a (pardon...
...Gilzean roundly said that Sir Harry Lauder has not only debased and vulgarized the songs of his country; but that "he portrays a type of Scotchman not found in the heavens above, on the earth beneath, or in waters under the earth." Waxing emphatic, Councilman Gilzean cried: "If that type of Scotchman ever went about Scotland in the flesh, we would pack him off to an asylum...
...became acquainted with an Englishman and a Scotchman, and started with them on a rice-selling expedition. They chartered a sampan, and after no few experiences, managed to buy ten sacks of the valuable grain from a schooner at Macao. They sailed back to Hongkong, to find the port closed. They were caught while trying to slip in after dark, and had to durop their cargo to avoid a fine...
...answer to the question, 'How much money can a university use profitably?' is the same as the question, 'How much whisky can a Scotchman drink?' Any given quantity."--President Lowell...