Word: scottishly
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...been following us with that thing ever since we left the Crinan Canal." bellowed England's Prince Philip, 41, to a telephoto-toting Scottish newspaper photographer chasing along the bank as the duke's royal yawl Bloodhound maneuvered through locks near Fort William, Scotland. "Do you want a bloody picture of my left earhole?" he cried. At least the Scottish edition of the Daily Herald did, next day ran a picture of the regal left ear along with a verbatim account of the royal remarks...
James Bruce, a gingerish Scottish aristocrat, was the first Briton to penetrate to the headwaters of the Blue Nile, at Lake Tana in Ethiopia. Bruce's intrusion into the "nightmarish fantasy of Ethiopian affairs," where he casually joined as it suited him one or another of the chronic little local wars, is a historic comedy with tragic forebodings. Bruce himself was an arrogant braggart, and Moorehead has great fun with his efforts to discredit the stories of missionaries who had been there before...
...Respectively, a puppet, and hence "a politician acting under an outsider's order"; a Scottish word for common sense; a soup for prisoners or sailors; a mixture of rum and spruce beer; and a blockhead...
Donald Soule's settings include a tropical garden on the coast of Morocco and an abandoned Moorish castle where Brassbound's band of thieves and cutthroats hide out. Costumes are by Lewis Smith. David Cole plays the Cockney thug, Drinkwater, with Peter Haskell as the Scottish missionary, Rankin, and Kenneth Tigar, Roger Gans and William FitzHugh are in the cast...
...defeats were not British, but English defeats. As General de Gaulle is fond of pointing out, one of his Scottish ancestors fought on the side of Jeanne d'Arc. On the other hand, it was the English, not the British, who started exploration and settlement in North America. Shakespeare is an English author; Burns a Scottish or Scots or Scotch author; Yeats an Irish author. The only British author I can think of at the moment is James Hilton of Goodbye, Mr. Chips. D. W. BROGAN Cambridge, England