Word: scotchness
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...Scots Club had to wait until last week to celebrate his 65th birthday. In London 700 Scots & guests received the Prime Minister's apologies for having been too busy last Oct. 12 with the General Election to banquet with them then. When all present had been mellowed by Scotch toasts, Mr. MacDonald scratched his silver head, tried to conjure up "some of my childhood memories...
People coming from Europe and other countries to us all speak with an accent, but very seldom do you see it joked about as when the Jew speaks. Still I would like to know if they spoke as you printed? (Possibly the Scotch as much...
...independent," but accepts a thumping yearly British subsidy and does as he is told. In greatest breadth Johore is only 100 mi., in greatest length 165 mi. Mostly covered with green forests, Johore supports an easy-going population of 337,000 who export rubber, import strong drink, including Scotch...
...Harvard men, with a sprinkling of Prince-tonians, sailed for Boston aboard the S. S. Pan America, chartered to attend the football game at Cambridge (see p. 23). In the first three hours 148 bottles of champagne were consumed. By 3 a. m. the bar's supply of Scotch whiskey was exhausted, not by heavy guzzling but because some of the passengers, including Publisher Noble A. Cathcart of Saturday Review of Literature, were accused of hoarding. The ship's stewards asserted that more liquor was purchased that night than on five round trips to Bermuda, but the party...
Trumbull College, for Jonathan Trumbull (Yale 1779, LL.D.), Revolutionary patriot and Governor of Connecticut, no ancestor of Connecticut's recent (1925-31) Governor John H. Trumbull, father- in-law of John Coolidge. Father-in-law Trumbull's parents were Scotch-Irish immigrants...