Word: scottishly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ectoplasm"; lovable, whimsical Barrie, the little master of Thrums, of whom the story is told that once, wandering over to Bernard Shaw's table in the coffee room of his club and seeing the remarkable mess upon which Shaw was browsing, he asked in an alarmed and Scottish whisper: "Oh tell me, Shaw. Ha' ye eaten that, or are ye going to?"; and G. K. Chesterton, sitting at a table in Paddington Station "in a black sombrero and an enormous cloak, a cup of tea in one hand and a glass of port wine in the other...
...school law was originally sponsored by the Scottish Rite Masons. In 1922, the Ku Klux Klan took it up, made it the chief issue of the elections, and put it on the statute books of the state by a vote of 106,996 to 93,349. The law required parents or guardians after Sept. 1, 1926, to send all children over 8 and under 16 to public schools for the entire school year. It was a blow direct at the Catholic parochial private school system...
...amazed," said the Scotsman, "at a great many of my old friends saying that the Scottish Sabbath was a burden. I would like to see a state of society where every man and woman preferred the old Scotch Sabbath to the modern French one, because in that state of society you would have fine, solid, eternal foundations of character and self-command...
...Capital News Service, speaking for the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite in the South, declared that the present Congress cannot afford to sidetrack the bill. "The pressure ... is overwhelming. Every patriotic and almost every fraternal order is behind it. Churches indorse it. Teachers, schools and colleges, alumni associations and undergraduates are for it. Chambers of Commerce and civic organizations demand it. Parents want it. School organizations want it. Almost every-one who knows anything about it wants it. ... The time has come when the United States should do as much for education as it does for wheat and corn...
...paying taxes, his friend Emerson came and stood outside the bars. "Henry," he demanded, sadly, "why are you there?" "Waldo," returned the prisoner accusingly, "why aren't you here?" This attitude of non-conformity per se is reflected in the opinions of Dr. A. Herbert Gray, a well known Scottish clergyman, who has contributed an article to a current number of the "intercollegian...