Word: scots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...puttin' on a wee drap o' music an' drama, ye ken," explained a kilted Scot, "but yer no' gettin' awa' wi' it all as a gift...
Jean Arthur, a visiting Congresswoman is flabbergasted to find John Lund, an American captain, fraternizing with Marlene Dietrich, the ex-mistress of a fugitive top Nazi. As bad or worse, Miss Dietrich is going around scot free; she is even singing in a nightclub. Millard Mitchell, a levelheaded, wisecracking colonel, does his best to calm Miss Arthur down; but since she is falling for Captain Lund, she doesn't calm easily. At long last she comes to realize that the Army always has its reasons: Miss Dietrich is being used to smoke her jealous Nazi lover out of hiding...
...income people were en titled to free care; they were joined now by 14,500,000 more, a total of 36,700,000 out of a population of 41,460,000 in Eng land and Wales. (Separate but similar schemes started at the same time in Scot land and Northern Ireland.) Said one gleeful patient: "I've been paying my doctor ten shillings sixpence ($2.10) per visit twice a week. Now the fellow has to attend me for 15 bob a year...
George A. Weller '29, foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News and a departing Nieman Fellow, acted as Toastmaster. He was introduced by R. Scot Leavitt '46, President during the Crime's actual anniversary year...
House at Hell Gate. As head of the city's government, he lives at Gracie Mansion, a fine, 15-room Colonial house built in 1799 by one of the city's early merchant princes, a Scot named Archibald Gracie. Like many another New Yorker, O'Dwyer loves the house. It sits amid sweeping lawns just above the East River Drive near Hell Gate, a spot which General George Washington once fortified against the British. He is served by a maid, a cook, a gardener, a police chauffeur and a butler with an Irish brogue and a gift...