Word: scottishly
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...Canada's National Defense Headquarters, startled by a request of Canadian Army women bagpipers for short kilts, ruled that man-sized kilts on a woman were a breach of Scottish tradition...
Died. Robert Frederick Foster, 92, Scottish-born ultimate authority on parlor Cames (Foster's Hoyle), who specialized in bridge, also knew all about poker, chess, cinch, dice, hearts, whist, skat, Russian bank (his favorite), dominoes; in Eastham, Mass...
...radio transcriptions. In a gesture of gratitude, Canada took over the pale green sunroom (for cocktails) and the green-paneled Palm Room (for dinner) of the swank Beverly Hills Hotel, exported boyish, popular Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson, Dominion ambassador to Washington, as guest speaker. There was also a kilted Scottish bagpiper, and a mouth-watering Canadian dinner presided over by austere John Helders, maître d'hotel sent down from the Vancouver Hotel...
...Scottish Presbyterian minister's son who became Archbishop of York at 44, of Canterbury at 64, he was a handsome, worldlywise, rosy-cheeked bachelor. During his Primacy he advocated interdenominational unity, a soft answer on remarriage after divorce - but not in the Simpson affair, of which he said: ". . . strange and sad it is that he [Edward] should have sought his happiness in a manner inconsistent with Christian principles of marriage...
...pneumonia, went to a White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. hospital, with a bad cold. Reports from both hospitals: improving satisfactorily. The new Chief of Staff (see ARMY & NAVY), unable to return to Europe to tidy up his affairs there, could not accept in person a little present from the Scottish people: an apartment of his own (with elevator) in rambling Cul-zean Castle on the Ayrshire coast...