Word: scotchness
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...fact to the cinema involved a statistical triumph of sorts, but the researchers of the Distilled Spirits Institute (formed after Repeal and headed by erstwhile Prohibition officer Dr. James M. Doran) collated the findings of its sober field workers, arrived at the conclusion that screen bibbers were shown drinking Scotch almost exclusively, to the detriment of an impressionable public...
...Straight Scotch," a play by Francis R. Hart, Jr. '27 has been chosen as the first production of the year by the Dramatic Club according to an announcement made yesterday. Rehearsals have been under way for two weeks at the Club House on Holyoke Street, formerly the Big Tree Swimming Pool...
...look too closely into the plot, you will see the unnatural spectacle of a hotel executive, willy-nilly backer of a play, making savage efforts to scotch the play because the producers have been concealing from him their mad shifts and hair-breadth escapes from destruction. But the dangers springing from his violent disposition make the real play all the more exciting, and the comedy-writer's license takes care of the rest. So we see Gordon Miller, hare-brained producer, catching hold of Leo Davis, rustic playwright, rifling his pockets, pawning his typewriter, putting him to bed on account...
...Crime of the Century." The record of Mitchell Hepburn is as amazing, paradoxical, red-blooded and wild as any to be found in the robust British Dominions. He was born 41 years ago on a St. Thomas farm of sturdy Scotch-Irish stock. After public schooling, which finished with the St. Thomas Collegiate Institute, the farmer boy, aged only 17, proudly became a cashier in a small branch of the Canadian Bank of Commerce...
...facts about Andrew Mellon, other than his fortune, were exceedingly simple. Born at Pittsburgh in 1855, he was the son of a hard-headed Tyrone County Scotch-Irishman who -"ounded the banking house of T. Mellon & Sons. At 18, Andrew quit Western University of Pennsylvania to start a lumber business with his 15-year-old brother, Dick. When the lumber business succeeded, first Andrew and then Brother Richard joined the bank, which they built into the $380,000,000 Mellon National Bank. In the next 40-some years, Andrew Mellon multiplied the Mellon capital...