Word: scottishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russia. His latest is about the Queen whose present reputation is about as far removed from gamy gossip as it is possible to get. But in her own lifetime the black-draped Widow of Windsor was openly rumored to be having a Lady Chatterley-like affair with a Scottish gamekeeper, and Scandalmonger Tisdall makes the most...
This backstairs stuff is as unconvincing as any tabloid keyhole column. But there can be no doubt that the willful Queen had a warmly loving relationship with the rough Scottish servant. The only recorded time in which the two were alone together, thinking that they were unobserved, makes a touching, human vignette. On a walk near Balmoral in 1875, a Mr. John Barry-Torr and his wife rounded a bend to see an empty pony cart and, a few yards away, Victoria and John Brown. Brown, pinning a plaid round the Queen's shoulders, apparently scratched her; she squealed...
With a drug so widely and often casually used, it is almost impossible to be sure whether a woman was taking thalidomide at the critical time. Last week in the Lancet, a canny Scottish doctor told how he had done it. In Stirlingshire...
...operation of a vague generality under fire, take the typical example. "Hume brought empiricism to its logical extreme." The question is asked, "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of his essay with 'David Hume represent the spirit of his essay with, 'David Hume, the greatest Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If this be the spirit of the age in which he lived, then he was representative of it." This generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea what Hume really said, or in fact what...
...explains the manner of the betrayal. The trouble with the novel is not that its subject is unpromising; Author Spark's fans are confident of her ability to discover astonishing falsities in unlikely places. The language stings as elegantly as ever, and when the author writes that gaunt Scottish schoolmistresses say good morning "with predestination in their smiles," nothing need be added to the description. The flaw is a thinness of texture; no single outline is untrue, but details are indefinite, as in a photographic positive taken too soon from the developer...