Word: scottishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...squirting into a pail. It would be hard for any cow to resist Kate Nicholson crooning: "Ruddy-faced and smooth-cheeked, gentle lady, you are my dear one. The calves have sucked, O gentle lady." The real thing by real folk, collected and selected by Alan Lomax and two Scottish experts...
...amused himself and friends with outhouse humor; so did Benjamin Franklin. Passages of Swift are brutally obscene. Byron and Swinburne both dipped their pens in blue ink, while even Thackeray could line out a lickerish limerick. Perhaps the most famous respectable smutmaster is Robert Burns, whose collection of bawdy Scottish verse has been circulating in more or less clandestine versions for more than 150 years. The collection as now published is as close to the original as scholarship is likely to achieve, bar ring the rediscovery of Burns's' own notebook...
Born in Richmond, Va., in 1931, Thomas F. Pettigrew escaped the doctrine of racism from the start. "I was brought up by a Scottish grandmother who thought that all Americans--North or South, black or white--were crazy," he relates. "My father was a mild-mannered man, conservative but not racist, who came from the hills of West Virginia. It was a great combination...
...that way eight months ago, at a performance of Aïda, when he first met the British Prime Minister's second daughter, and now the young Oxford economics don plans to make his name hers. The wedding date is March 30 at her family's Scottish estate, The Hirsel, in a ceremony to be attended only by relatives...
What is Graham's goal? "If just one student out at Harvard would go back to his room tomorrow night and make a commitment to Christ, who knows what might come of it?" He went on to describe how Dwight Moody once told a young Scottish convert to "go do something for the laboring people of Scotland;" the convert went on to found the British Labour Party. Graham sat back in his chair, looking towards the ceiling, his phenomenal nervous enegy no longer so obvious. "These men did evangelists' work, men like John Wesley, and Dwight L. Moody, and William...