Word: scots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...words rollick. The little Scot prances and taps them out with his cane as he sings. Two plump, white knees twinkle below his kilt, and the Puckish smile of Sir Harry Lauder becomes as irresistible as the merry light in his grey eyes. Soon one more audience has succumbed to Scottish magic and is lilting the chorus joyously...
George V of England, in naval uniform, stands hand on hip beside a pensive Wales in khaki. David Lloyd George is carrying a cane, fingering his monocle. Lord Kitchener listens attentively to something Lord French is explaining. A white-turbaned Maharajah smiles behind a bag-piping Scot...
Heywood Campbell Broun wrote in his column for the New York World: "For ages I had been curious to know what would happen if the nose of a great editor were shattered. I find that it bleeds. ... I do not like to come scot-free when friends of mine in the same car are injured. Besides, a great many duties devolve upon the member of the party who is not lacerated. I hailed the passing limousines with hoarse cries of 'Hospital!' and I must say there is no great congestion of Samaritans in Central Avenue...
...Harry Lauder, singer, Scot: "Recently at Nashville, Tenn., a Pacific & Atlantic photographer snapped me tipping a Pullman porter. Last week, throughout the U. S. the picture was printed with the caption: 'ANOTHER ILLUSION SHATTERED...
...extract from a letter of Downing in the tract, "A Great Victory God hath Vouchsafed by the Lord General Cromwels Forces against the Scots", is illuminating. "Col: Scot, or Petty Scot isflaine and Col: Buchanan (a man of great eminence and estate among them is taken prifoner as also is Sir John Brown their Commander in chief: Of their foot not 200 escaped and those that are prifoners the most of them are desperately wounded they will hardly live; all their foot Colors are taken and many of their harfe the most of their foot are High landers the reft...