Word: scots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Muir than for most men. He absorbed and reveled in it as his vital element. With passionate volubility and in sinewy prose, he brought it vividly alive for more short sighted mortals. He fought for it, hard and successfully, against the invasion of commercialism. Emerson named the bearded Scot in his private list of "My Men." His most notable victory was the long, touch-& -go battle for the conservation of Yosemite Valley. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have seen his best monument: the national parks...
...proconsul. But he was unlike any other proconsul who had ever been seen in India. Hitherto it had been deemed a necessity to surround the Viceregal office with a pomp and pageantry that would dazzle even India's dazzling princes. Wavell's predecessor, Lord Linlithgow, a thrifty Scot, used to travel around India in a luxurious, cream-colored train because "Indians are impressed by these things." The new Viceroy arrived in India in a rumpled lounge suit. Instead of taking the royal route through Bombay's imposing "Gateway to India," he went direct to New Delhi...
...Gibbon's, and thanks to his inveterate good nature and high spirits, probably had more real friends. Some of his biographers have been unable to get past Boswell's faults and a few have tried to argue them away, but Mr. Quennell has done the pudgy Scot exact justice. He has seen-but also seen past-the clown who strutted about the Shakespeare Jubilee in Corsican fancy dress and who "sallied forth like a roaring lion after girls." Mr. Quennell has rightly praised him as not only the author of the greatest biography in existence, but also...
...Canadian Scots protested, tradition or no. They pointed out that the Vancouver Glengarry Girls Pipe Band wears knee-revealing kilts and that no Gael feels affronted. Said Robert Fiddes, president of the Vancouver St. Andrew's and Caledonian Society: "A kilt improves the look of any lassie." A regulation kilt, he declared, should fall just above the knee, not below. A true Scot is proud to show his knees, no matter how bony, and a lassie should be allowed to do the same-"she certainly has more to show...
...these businessmen guaranteed to deliver to a medical school any given body, sometimes snatching a corpse almost from under its mourners' noses. From grave-robbing, dealers in cadavers took to replenishing their supplies by murder. This form of service to medical science was called Burking, after an enterprising Scot who invented it. He was eventually caught, hanged and himself dissected...