Word: scotchman
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...Well, his old woman, she was expiring, dying passing out,--get me-passing out, dying, expiring in their picturesque little shack-no, not right, she was giving up the ghost in their delepidated little bungalow, and the Scotchman sat by her bedside, holding her hand...
...Then suddenly, unexpectedly, startingly the fire bells rang out! Alarm! Shrieks of flames! No, shrieks of women--get me? Watch out for that smoke stack! What the --! Anyway it was the call of Duty. But even at such a time he was a Scotchman. 'I've got is leave you Martha,' he said, shaking his head sadly. 'It's a call from the department and I've got to go. I hope you get over your illness, Martha, but if you feel yourself slipping before I get back-please blow out the candle...
...Sailors Read" that her tale inspires comment in the same spirit even if grossly apart from reality. Her fancy took fire at a project for ship libraries that originated with a literary discussion in an Oxfordshire garden. It has attained, under the tutelage of a "canny but sympathetic little Scotchman" to actual experiment and its particulars afford novel refreshment...
...takes her delight in its practical arrangements and curious statistics. For instance, economy in ship space makes the location of the library a ticklish problem. The passengers' smoking room has been found a poor place because the passengers inevitably borrow the books. While the lower gyro room, as the Scotchman said, is "way down, ye know". Resort is usually had to the working alleway although narrowness bothers here. The librarian has to be a man whose profane tasks are not too arduous and one for whom the printed page has a "slight glimmering of interest", sometimes a night steward, sometimes...
...golfing women inarched among the dunes for their championship. In their own counties, they were most of them little champions, but among them there was easy-going young Joyce Wethered, who, last year (as in 1922), kept every one of them from being a big champion. Had a Scotchman been inclined to bet against Miss Wethered this year, he would probably have chosen either braw Cecil Leitch, unbeatable just before and just after the War (1914, '20, '21), or Glenna Collett, of Providence, R. I., a girl quieter than most of her countrymen, who had turned up with...