Word: scottishly
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...week, the symptoms of what other Europeans call "the English disease" were alarming. In Coventry, 300 deliverymen went on strike for three days. At Ford's Halewood plant. 600 electricians walked out. maintaining the company's five-year average of one walkout a week. In Edinburgh, the Scottish building workers threatened to pull 100,000 men off construction sites...
...Charles H. Bennett. This latest-to-be-edited volume of Boswell's journal cannot deepen the portrait of Johnson, but Bozzy's entertaining chatter continues delightfully as he describes the doctor, a great bag of prejudice and conversation set atop a tiny horse, clambering over the wet Scottish islands...
...papers lets the reader count the ways. It pictures Johnson-the most ungainly of oldsters, the most nearsighted of onlookers, the most sedentary of talkers, the most fanatical of Londoners-perched atop tiny horses, half-drowned in pitching vessels, sleeping in chilly barns and clambering over rocks in remote Scottish islands. And by the side of this most incongruous of Crusoes trudges the most inspired of Man Fridays...
When Johnson was shown a Scottish forest, he remarked that he would have called it a heath. As for Scottish scenery: "The noblest prospect that a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to London." But he could poke fun at himself as well; asked if he would not start if he saw a ghost, he answered, "I hope not. If I did, I should frighten the ghost." But if the tour aroused Johnson's antic side, it aroused his antiquarian side even more. On the islands - Raasay and Skye and Mull - there were still feudal...
...Gumming, 62, a spirited Scot whose great-grandfather founded the Cardow Distillery, which later was absorbed by Johnnie Walker. Gumming, an army officer in both world wars, became a Distillers director in 1946, has been a major force in Britain's drive to export more Scotch. A onetime Scottish all-star rugby player, he is described by a close friend as a person who "enjoys life to the full-including his own product...