Word: scotchness
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...that a female missionary, who has been captured by a Chinese general with a pretty taste for virgins, casts desperately about to find someone she can claim as husband and thus secure her release. A British consul, acting as her agent, obtains for a fee the signature of a Scotch sailor who happens to be in the Shanghai jail. A later divorce is promised, and as neither party has seen the other, the sailor imagines his wife to be a straight-laced old maid; while the missionary assumes that her savior is a lecherous young jack...
...metamorphic career of Aknahton, racing enthusiasts found out no more about him until last week when E. Phocion Howard, publisher of the lively racing weekly New York Press, printed an interview with one Paddy Barrie, whom he described as "an engaging little cuss." Paddy Barrie, an ex-jockey of Scotch extraction who professed to have ridden in two Grand Nationals and to have collaborated on newspaper articles with the late Author Edgar Wallace, told all about the dyeing of Aknahton, gave out valuable hints on "ringing'' in general: "It's the softest thing in the world...
BROTHERS-L. A. G. Strong-Knobi ($2.50). , Along the rocky shores of the Western Highlands live hardy fishermen who catch lobsters in their naked hands, make Scotch moonshine in the veiling mists. With barnacle-like fervor they cling to the briny customs of their fathers. Silent (when sober) almost as clams, they are also prone to stew in their own juice. Peter Macrae is clever, his younger brother Fergus is strong. In all useful pursuits, fishing, seal-hunting, Fergus outstrips his brother. Peter hates him for his open disposition, his drunken glees with Captain Aeneas M'Grath, a roisterous...
...last person known to have seen 20-month-old Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. was his nurse, a dark-haired, light footed little Scotch girl of 26 named Betty Gow. Nurse Gow immigrated to the U. S in 1928, has been in the Lindberghs' employ over a year. At approximately 8:30 o'clock one evening last week she went to his nursery. It is on the second floor southeast corner, of the home which Col. & Mrs. Lindbergh completed last autum three miles north of Hopewell, ten miles north of Princeton, on a wild, lonely stretch of high ground called Sourland...
Justice Townsend Scudder, judging the six, singled out the pointer, the Scotch terrier and the greyhound. Nancolleth Markable scrutinized his handler, then his owner, then the judge. At a wave of applause in the last minutes of the judging, he faced around to give the crowd a solemn look. When Judge Scudder handed his handler the rosette for first prize, he gave a jump and sniffed. To Gamecock Duke of Wales went the trophy for the best American-bred dog in the Show...