Word: scotchness
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...which had been misty, brightened before the trippers opened their sandwich baskets. On a barge moored in the Leeds & Liverpool Canal near Valentine's Brook, the Duke of Westminster and his friends quaffed scotch & soda. They were watched, from the Royal stand built several years ago for the Prince of Wales, by a wide-eyed group of Swedish excursionists. The grandstand and enclosure were nearly filled toward noon, when an agitated hare came humping down the home stretch, crossed the finish line and dodged into the paddock...
...Scotch...
...Northport, L. I., William Weyrauch was engaged in cleaning out the old Lecoq house, long unoccupied. He discovered a bottle of Scotch whiskey dated 1842. No lawbreaker, William Weyrauch destroyed...
...three months, left with a promise that he would always make more with his pen and camera than he could at an office desk. To blunt questions as to what his father's name is, what he does in The City, Photographer Beaton blushed, "My father is Scotch," said he. "His business is wholesale-something to do with coal and lumber. Oh dear, this is frightfully embarrassing." When Cecil Beaton was ten, the Scotch-wholesaler father presented him with a 3A folding Kodak. Cecil has used it ever since-the same one. Pictures which he skillfully took with...
Recalling that Sir Harry's impersonations include an idiot Scotch boy who drools into a kitchen bowl, and a Scotchman who constantly wipes his nose with his sleeve, and that Sir Harry's principal joke is still the one about stinginess, Critic Andrew Dewar Gibbs summed...