Word: scotchness
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...wooden dispatch box is about the size of a case of Scotch: two feet long, 18 inches wide, 12 inches high...
...Manhattan, over a Scotch-and-milk, tousled Author James T. (Studs Lonigan) Farrell confessed that religion scares him mostly because he cannot visualize any hereafter to his liking. "If I were to go to Heaven," he explained wryly, "I would find my sainted mother nagging my father, and my grandmother bawling out my grandfather. And both ladies would be telling the Lord how to run things. On the other hand, if I go where I should go, I would find my aunt chasing the Devil as always. That wouldn't be any change for me, either...
...Know How It Tastes." While his men executed the maneuvers in the legislature, George Craig was in the thick of the fight behind the scenes. Craig knows how to fight, and loves a good one. The descendant of Scotch-Irishmen who came to Indiana from Virginia about 1815, he grew up in the tough, coal-mining atmosphere of Brazil (rhymes with Hazel). His father, Bernard Craig, 75, is still practicing law there. A Jeffersonian Democrat (the last Democratic presidential candidate he voted for: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in 1932), Bernard Craig was a fierce foe of the Ku Klux Klan...
...family, fled to Tahiti and became a great painter amid the palm trees and dusky native maids. Devoted Gauguinists have damned the Maugham novel (in which the thinly disguised Gauguin is actually an Englishman named Charles Strickland) as six-pennyworth of moonshine. But they have never managed to scotch it. They never will, because the tale is essentially true...
...such novels as Ivanhoe and Rob Roy without revising or even rereading, dictating at times while racked by pain from gallstones and stomach cramps. He was extravagant: his "hut" at Abbotsford became a castle, where he spent immense sums buying up land, planting trees (3,000 laburnums, 3,000 Scotch elms, 100,000 birches) and entertaining noblemen, statesmen, lairds and literary lights...