Word: scotchness
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From Peshawar, on India's northern frontier, last week, two Scotch bankers, J. L. Hutcheson and J. V. Dunsmore of the Imperial Bank of India, motored out with an escort of a native sergeant and two soldiers to see the sunrise from the top of the Khyber Pass. Enraged by the sight of two Scotchmen looking at the Indian sun, the Indian sergeant ran amok, shot and killed both the Scotch bankers, was killed himself by the two Indian privates. Peshawar officials hastened to deny that the frenzied Indian sergeant was connected with the placid St. Gandhi movement...
...things as Swiss cheese, Brussels sprouts, French peas, Turkish cigarets and Old Dutch Cleanser? Surely these are more dangerous and insidious than mere crosses and ribbons. If I wear the order of the Golden Fleece, it never comes in actual contact with my body, being separated thereby by my Scotch Tweed Weskit and one, perhaps, neutralizes the evil of the other...
...Gandhi by the sea. When the sun evaporated enough water to produce a few pinches of salt the momentous grains were sold to eager bidders for a total of $160. This act was analogous to a sale in the middle of Main Street of a case of Scotch...
Heroine Erne Gallows is an orphaned Scotch girl, strong, passionate, beautiful. From her sailor father she inherits a reckless temper, an honest eye. The villagers mistrust her independence; they get drunk at her wedding but think her husband a queer, weak sort of man for her to pick. They are enlightened and glad when she is pregnant before her time. Her lover comes to the fair; there is a brawl, her husband is killed. Effie marries the schoolteacher, who has always loved her; a few months later her child is born, but it is weakly, and soon dies. Then...
...Author. Not only is Gallows' Orchard Author Claire Spencer's first novel, it is her first published work of any kind. A Scotch girl from Paisley (where the great Paisley shawls were made), she came to the U. S. 12 years ago, aged 19. An art student, Author Spencer paints "strange and surprising landscapes, which are the admiration of her friends," designed the jacket for her own book. She knows more artists than writers, reads few modern writers, has never read Thomas Hardy, to whose Tess of the D'Urbervilles her book has been compared...