Word: scotchness
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...examination time of my junior year (i.e., February 1905), a number of us took our examinations in Bobby's box, with the idea of finding out whether brain work consumed any physical energy. As I recall it, they never proved that it did, or at best reached a Scotch verdict. But it was a man-sized calorimeter with all the fixings, and subjects would sometimes stay in it for a week or two, living on scientifically controlled rations and producing energy by pedaling a stationary bicycle...
With regard to the scruples of a certain lady about the nude bathing on the Riga Beach [TIME, May 12] . . . may I inform you that the Riga Beach lies behind a natural wall, about 20-30 feet high, formed by sand dunes covered with Scotch pine-Pinus sylvestris...
...Where are ye going?" said a voice with a strong Scotch accent. I stopped and looked. . . . On one of the rocks sat a very tall man, almost a giant, with a flowing beard. . . . Here was an enthroned and shining god, whose ageless spirit weighed upon mine like a burden of solid gold: and yet, at the very same moment, here was an old, weather-beaten man, one who might have been a shepherd...
...poems of U.S. leftist Langston Hughes. They were so moved that they soon addressed each other, not as "friend," but as "comrade." In the sultry Vermelinho (The Little Red One), a sidewalk cafe, Communist literati flocked again to sip beer. They sneered complacently at "Yankee imperialists" who drank Scotch...
...Lawrence Dame, art critic of the Boston Herald and by the time the second member of the panel, an editor of the CRIMSON, had been led to the table, Mr. Dane was adequately ensconced behind a glass of dry sherry and an Avocado salad. The Crimeditor ordered "some Scotch, never mind the food...