Word: scotchness
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...York Sun found that "what those pine trees knew was how to sigh and moan and storm and urge Mr. Bax to deeds of instrumentation. . . . But it was so strung out that one could not help being grateful that Mr. Bax had seen only Norway pines and Scotch firs and had not got into the redwood district of California. Just a few sequoias, say those up at Wawona, might have told him the whole of Gone With the Wind...
...without sufficient money and because there were no letters from Elmira. Meanwhile Elmira has married, having received no letters from him, although he wrote to her every day. What happened to the letters is not explained. Poe's foster father, who comports himself like Simon Legree with a Scotch burr, sends him away. He goes to live with Mrs. Clemm and her 13-year-old daughter Virginia, whom any shock is likely to kill because her arteries are "as thin as tissue paper." When Poe is offered a magazine job in Richmond, Virginia faints. Poe finds her so beautiful...
...hall to glance at the morning paper and surprised to see the quarrelsome Republicans still flay our popular President. How they groan and tear their hair when they think that Mr. Roosevelt will lead the next Congress around by the ears, like a stable-boy at a Scotch tavern. And into my head march the jolly lines of those talented gentlemen, Messers. Gilbert & Sullivan...
Sighed he: "I am so damned tired. I am going to have a large Scotch & soda." But it was too early for the pub to be open and he had to celebrate on ginger beer...
Twenty-four hours seems too short a time to celebrate two such noteworthy occasions. Yet we must make the most of it. Whether dunking for apples at the Round Up or taming savage tigers on Soldier's field, or sipping Scotch and sodas at Dinty Moore's, Ten Thousand Men of Harvard will have a roaring good weekend...