Word: scottishly
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...Halifax one day last week, a tall, grey-eyed Scottish stranger called on Nova Scotia Premier A. Stirling MacMillan. The stranger announced that he was "glad to be home." He would, he said, like to buy part of Nova Scotia...
Quipped a member: Would the Prime Minister have this proposal translated into Basic? Asked a Scotsman: "Will the Prime Minister see that a clear Scottish pronunciation is used and thereby avoid the fluctuating and irritating noises that are generally made by the English...
...Highland Fling" has its high and low spots which when considered together spell out only fair entertainment. A sort of dual plot provides the main themes for the play: the removal of the ancient Scottish Stone of Scone upon which the Scottish Kings were crowned, and the reformation of a reprobate Scotsman are intermingled to produce many comic and many not-so-comic situations...
...locale is an old Scottish castle, haunted by one of the central figures of the play, and the town pub, haunt of most of the other characters. The lead, a ghost, in order to enter heaven must convert the reprobate and attempts to do so although considerably distracted by his love for the town idiot, Silly, who likes her kisses cold and ghastly. She eventually changes her affections to the young laird, descendant of the ghost, leaving the ghost to go to heaven. The Stone of Scone is carted off to America by a Pittsburghian Scot in order that...
...Britain's House of Commons stormy David Kirkwood, Scottish Laborite, found a new cause for criticism: the "V-Cigaret" issued to British soldiers fighting overseas. From the parliamentary record...