Word: scottishly
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...military organizations, including the Worcester Continentals, the Washington Light Infantry (of S. C.), the Amoskeag Veterans (of Manchester), the Governor's Foot Guard (of Conn.), the Fifth Maryland Infantry, the Old Guard (of Manhattan), the Putnam Phalanx and the old Guard State Fencibles took part. In the afternoon, the Scottish Rite Masons of Philadelphia presented in Carpenters' Hall, amid the original furniture, a reproduction of the first meeting of the Continental Congress, with words taken from the Secretary's minutes and the original prayer offered by the minister of the same church who had opened the historic meeting. All this...
...malicious mind. On the contrary, we would like to agree with the Prime Minister. They may have had no more to do with each other than 'the man in the moon' but we feel bound to say that Ramsay MacDonald and Sir Alexander Grant, with their Scottish upbringing should have remembered the sagacious apostolic injunction to avoid even the appearance of evil...
...Scotland, "teaching is a desirable occupation, an honored profession, is paid accordingly. Scotland has the best public schools in the world." So said 20 Scottish teachers, as they stepped ashore in Manhattan for Summer travel...
...expected to introduce a bill demanding home rule for Scotland. It was stated that the bill "provides for a single Chamber of 148 members while executive power is vested in the King, who will be advised in matters pertaining to Scotland by a committee to be named by the Scottish Parliament...
...ectoplasm"; lovable, whimsical Barrie, the little master of Thrums, of whom the story is told that once, wandering over to Bernard Shaw's table in the coffee room of his club and seeing the remarkable mess upon which Shaw was browsing, he asked in an alarmed and Scottish whisper: "Oh tell me, Shaw. Ha' ye eaten that, or are ye going to?"; and G. K. Chesterton, sitting at a table in Paddington Station "in a black sombrero and an enormous cloak, a cup of tea in one hand and a glass of port wine in the other...