Word: scottishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cornwall, which had instead the worst floods of half a century. The National Automobile Association officially reported "the worst mixture of terrible road conditions we can remember." The Royal Navy dispatched its 13,000-ton aircraft carrier Glory to serve as a base of helicopter operations to relieve snowbound Scottish crofters in the north...
...collected the Border ballads he loved. At 33 he published his own ballad. The Lay of the Last Minstrel, and it sold an unheard-of 40,000 copies. After such narrative poems as Marmion and The Lady of the Lake (which started a great tourist rush for the Scottish moors and highlands), Scott started turning out his medieval romances and his beloved tales of bygone borderers and buccaneers...
...meal after all the excitement, dinner was announced. It was simple fare, but nourishing: chili and salad served on paper plates by Wellesley girls. There was an atmosphere of merry anticipation all through dinner, because everybody knew that the square dance followed. And not only that, but the Scottish Highland Dancers were going to perform...
...last it was time to walk down to "Alum" and start the evening's entertainment. It began with the Scottish Dancers who did four or five authentic dances. We were very surprised to see how gracefully they tiptoed around and bounced back and forth. When they had finished, the leader walked proudly up to the platform and said, "Well, did you like that? (great applause and shouting) Good! Now let's all dance...
...human and humorous Scotsman Strang clings to his belief in the Many-Splendoured Thing-his phrase for honor, decency and civilization. British Author Marshall (The White Rabbit, Father Malachy's Miracle) keeps his story moving almost too fast. But he has a great ear for the speech of Scottish chorus girls, schoolboys, sergeants and generals. He also has a winking eye for such social ironies as the marriage of an Episcopalian to a Roman Catholic in Scotland ("As Methuen had not made his submission to Rome, the ceremony was bare, although . . . the Bishop Auxiliary allowed a bit of extra...