Word: scotchness
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Grace, the black sheep, is the stupid sixth child of an upright Scotch Presbyterian stone mason, whose wife died when Grace was 4. During school days Grace was "nervous" and "hard to manage." Men in the shoe factory, where she went to work at 16, found her easy prey. Promiscuity she did not realize was wrong. It was for her simply a means of getting to skating rinks, dance halls and cinemas. Grace and a friend named Edith had babies by casual sailors, gaily named their infants after each other. Grace's Edith, now 14, is beginning to show...
...twelve players who are to participate are to play alternate shots in the Scotch foursome type of play. Fair weather was predicted for the opening day of the instch...
...week's visit to Manhattan, Sir Henri had calmly announced that railroad electrification was already obsolete, that the Diesel engine was the locomotive of the future. On that score, too, Mr. Sinclair had a ready answer: "What's the difference whether you drink Scotch or bourbon"?a reference to the fact that U. S. railroads already burn some 2,000,000,000 gal. of fuel oil per year...
...James Roosevelt, 79-year-old mother of the President, sailed from New York for a European holiday aboard the German liner Europa. Last week it was the French liner Ile de France that brought her back to the U. S. With her she brought from Aberdeenshire four yards of Scotch tweed as a present for her son to have a suit made from. Said she: "The cloth was very reasonable. I don't think it cost as much as £5. I do hope my son will have it made up, although Washington is hardly the place to wear such...
...price, against a 1934 high of $31). he had another money-raising scheme up his well-tailored sleeve. He arranged to sell the other half of his new issue, 337,000 shares, to Distillers Co. Ltd., Britain's fabulous whiskey trust. The rich & noble lords of Scotch whiskeydom have a soft spot in their hearts for Mr. Porter as well as a shrewd eye for profits. Far from being a bitter competitor. National Distillers sells hundreds of cases of DCL's Scotch, helped DCL to restore its 20% dividend (TIME...