Word: scotchness
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...Party in honor of her son. John Randolph ("Jock") McLean, who will be 21 next month. Son Jock, his guest Patricia Ziegfeld. the late Florenz Ziegfeld's daughter, and 1.000 other merrymakers danced around to two bands in two ballrooms, drank 120 gal. of champagne. 55 gal. of Scotch whiskey...
...dinner Mr. Johnson eat several platefuls of Scotch broth with pease in them and was very fond of the dish. I said, 'You never eat it before, sir.' 'No, sir, but I don't care how soon I eat it again...
These who have enjoyed James Boswell's "Life of Samuel Johnson" will find a pleasant sequel in "Journal of a Tour to the Bebrides." Those who have not yet read Boswell will probably treat him much as Dr. Johnson did his first plateful of Scotch broth...
...that seem to be reserved for literary figures who are generally thought to have been dead for years. But Cunninghame Graham was no mere Victorian period piece surviving to a cynical and indifferent age. Born in London in 1852, he was brought up by his Spanish grandmother and his Scotch father, lived through enough careers in his 84 years to make such celebrated literary men of action as Doughty or Wilfrid Blunt seem sedentary by comparison. Leaving school before he was 17, he sailed to South America, traded in cattle and mules, traveled across Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina, learned to ride...
GLORY'S CHILDREN-Hilton Brown- Knopf ($2.50). Less like The Forsyte Saga than a thick family album, the story of a hard-headed Scotch ex-sailor who founds an industry and a large family in India, neither of which turns out well...