Word: scots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stained Rags. Through Christie's auction rooms have passed the glories of some of England's greatest houses. The parade was started in 1766 by James Christie, an enterprising young Scot, with his first catalogued sale of "jewels, plates, firearms, china, etc. . . . late the property of a noble person (deceased...
...Pawkiness (Fyffe definition): ". . . economic irony; the way a Scot looks at you when you ask him how the world is treating him and he answers 'very seldom...
...Crimson's big winner of this fall, the Varsity soccer team, meets the Bulldog as the odds-on favorite to win its eighth of the year against one defeat. While the football team has had its moments of glory and the cross-country team has wallowed in defeats, wee Scot James MacDonald's booters have amassed the best soccer record in decades...
...soccer as in other sports a certain amount of luck is involved. James MacDonald's team has been lucky this year, but sound play has meant more. Sound play in the MacDonald image is not what generally passes as the American type of soccer. A Scot who has coached and played professional soccer since before the First World War, MacDonald has trained his team in the methods of the continental teams...
James MacDonald, the wee Scot who coaches the Crimson, expects a contest much like that of the Army game, for Dartmouth features the same rough, long-passing game as the Cadets use. The Crimson plays a short passing attack emphasizing ball control