Word: scotchness
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...velvety Carlton Hotel, but a rosy apple gnawed at his desk, or a delicatessen lunch thrown together in his office with fruits, home-canned goods and cheeses sent to him by friendly farmers. His idea of relaxation is reading law books. A Mormon,* he never smokes, sips a Scotch highball only when it seems to be the necessary social gesture. Yet, while maintaining the appearance of the man who gets lost behind a potted fern at cocktail parties, the Secretary of Agriculture has become one of the most controversial figures in U.S. public life...
...attempt to scotch rumors that parents and friends of seniors will be unwelcome on the Class Moonlight Cruise June 20, Coombs declared, "The committee had visiting parents particularly in mind when it scheduled the cruise. We wanted to have a type of entertainment that seniors, their dates, and those visiting them from home could attend, since most of the Class Week activities are for seniors, or for seniors and dates only...
...George Dock, in the April 24 issue: "Nobody was sure who Tom Parr was." Teetotaling Urologist Elmer Belt, who "went searching through his medical books in the systematic way that Dr. Dock would appreciate," should have known that Dr. Dock undoubtedly was referring to that famous GRAND OLD PARR SCOTCH WHISKY named after "Thomas Parr, born A.D. 1483 and interred at Westminster Abbey A.D. 1635 aged 152 years...
...typists share a common plague--scotch-taped, stapled, and unreadable manuscripts. But student patronage would seem to prove that they can read the unreadable and beat the deadlines...
...those Scotch-Irish who want no Catholic rule move to the U.S., in exchange for a like number of the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick who want to extend Dublin's beneficent domain and presumably would be anxious themselves to enjoy the blessings which they urge upon the reluctant Orangemen. When the exchange is accomplished, the opposition to a united Ireland will end, the U.S. will gain several hundred thousand of the sober and diligent folk who gave us Andrew Jackson, Stonewall Jackson, Cleveland, McKinley and Woodrow Wilson, and Ireland will gain a like number of Hagues, Curleys...