Word: scottishly
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...faithful comptroller who stigmatized an act of Parliament as "unfortunate" is no supercilious lordling but plain Tom Henderson, a labor M. P. with only a grammar school education who has been the Scottish labor parliamentary whip since 1925. "Tom" is not to be confused with "Uncle Arthur" Henderson, potent foreign secretary...
Writing in a style excellently her story, Miss Spencer tells straightlaced jealousies, prejudices, and oruelties of the inhabitants of a small Scottish village kill the independent Effie Gallows and ruin the lives of Schoolmaster John and Minister Kennith, who had loved Effie and been friendly...
...rule, dialect stories, ladened down with spurious local color, and almost comically heavy tragedy, are the inevitable result of attempts to tell of Life in the North Carolina Mts., the Norwegian fjords, the Normandy fishing villages, or the Scottish Highlands, but "Gallows' Orchard" has none of these faults. It suggests power and strength without making its principal character spit tobacco juice on his or her hands. Its catastrophe really is tragic, and even though the whole story is one of tragedy, it is not lacking in beauty...
...Harry Lauder, Scottish clownster, stepped out of a bath tub in a Chicago hotel, slid, flip-flopped, broke his right ninth rib. Continuing to fulfill remunerative engagements, he said: "Bathrooms be a wee bit dangerous at times...
...Martin, Instructor in English, for the study of the history of the Scottish theatre from 1660 to 1767, in regard to the struggle for theatrical entertainments from the restoration to the licensing of a, theatre in Edinburgh...