Word: scottishly
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...confused with the milk-curdling Scottish pipes. The medieval one-cane Italian pipe had not so shrill a timbre...
...Duke of Edinburgh unfurled for the first time his own personal standard, recently approved by his father-in-law. Three feet long and two feet wide (impaled with his own arms and those of Elizabeth), the pennant includes a total of ten lions: six English, three Danish and one Scottish...
Announcement of former Prime Minister Clement Attlee's dissolution honors list included an earldom for Viscount Jowitt, the Labor government's Lord Chancellor; a Companionship of Honor for its Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison; a baronage for David Kirkwood, thistly Scottish labor leader; and a knighthood for Dr. Walter Fergusson Hannay, the surgeon who cleared up Attlee's foot eczema and his duodenal ulcer...
...merged two steel plants, an ore company and a railroad into the Federal Steel Co., with Illinois' Judge Elbert H. Gary at the helm, and merged 19 steel-fabricating plants into National Tube. Yet the whole steel industry was still dominated by Pittsburgh's sturdy Scottish rebel, Andrew Carnegie, who in 1900 turned out almost half of the nation's annual 10 million tons...
...usually don't. Last week a Welsh miner was Labor's candidate in an English farming constituency (he was trounced); Sir David Robertson, a London businessman, won a seat in a remote Scots Highland constituency. Even Winston Churchill, who is seldom seen in a kilt, represented a Scottish constituency from...