Word: scottishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...James Barrie's 41-year-old sentimental comedy, The Old Lady Shows Her Medals. Gracie Fields worked hard for every tear as the plucky charlady who pretends she has a son fighting in France during World War I, and Jackie Cooper gamely took the hurdles of a Scottish accent as the upstanding Highlander who threatens to reveal her deception...
Young Campbell's portrait made him one of a distinguished company. Raeburn, an orphaned son of a Scottish millowner and largely self-taught in art, had developed his own technique of painting to the point where, in the eyes of the local aristocracy, he was Scotland's greatest artist and the equal of London's Romney, Lawrence and Gainsborough. A Highland chief, when entertaining him, gave the command: "Bonnets off to Sir Henry Raeburn." To his studio in a steady procession came such famed countrymen as Diarist James Boswell, Economist Adam Smith, Philosopher David Hume and Novelist...
...after a varied career as a lumber salesman, army officer, exporter and timber evaluator for the Bureau of Internal Revenue, an Ivy League degree was assumed to be part of a U.S. diplomat's equipment. In such company Canadian-born Angus Ward, who spoke with a Scottish burr and who had no degree at all, stuck out like a sore thumb...
Litany will be based on the Beatitudes, and, Buttrick observed, the form of service probably has antecedents in the traditional Scottish order. Anyone professing faith will be welcome at the Lord's Supper Celebration, Buttrick stated...
...struck directly at N.Y.U.'s great rival, Columbia University. There, library officials had already set up a lively exhibition commemorating the 2,000th year of Julius Caesar's death. Now, it seemed, Columbia was commemorating a year too soon. University classicists promptly split on what to do. Scottish Gilbert Highet ("I'm a classicist, not a mathematician") was for calling the whole thing off, but bearded Classicist Moses Hadas favored the exhibition. Meanwhile the university news office, citing the Columbia Encyclopedia, informed reporters that "because of poor time calculation in earlier times," even the birth of Christ...