Word: skirlings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kerr, first Baron Inverchapel of Loch Eck and imminent British ambassador to the U.S. On the high road to Washington this week, Lord Inverchapel had a youthful bagpiper of the Clan Maclean in his personal retinue. Henceforth, state occasions at the British Embassy will be stirred by the bonny skirl of 200-year-old Highland pipes...
...sheep's stomach bag (with the windpipe hanging over the side of the pot to carry off impurities), stuff it with ground heart, liver, lights, suet, onions, oatmeal and seasoning, and boil again. The steaming, evil-looking haggis would be brought to the banquet table to the skirl of bagpipes and the words of Bobby Burns's ode to "the great chieftain o' the puddin' race...
Canadian Army women may skirl bagpipes-but not in kilts that show the knees. In Ottawa. National Defense Headquarters ruled that man-size kilts on a woman are a breach of Scottish tradition...
...skirl of bagpipes, which has long lifted the hackles of Scottish fighters, has so stirred U.S. Marines stationed in Londonderry that they have formed their own pipe band. With chanters & drones and drums, such Scots-by-sentiment as Privates Chartowich, Ritz and Rozelle have practiced pibrochs and set to the pipes the Marine's own Semper Fidelis...
Last Chance? Meeting in Bracken's home town (Winnipeg), the right-left Tories opened their convention with a brave skirl of pipes. They gave a rousing farewell to able Senator Arthur Meighen, whose party leadership collapsed last February when he was defeated in a parliamentary by-election. They gave as rousing a welcome to quiet, friendly, pince-nezed, 59-year-old Bracken, electing him on the second ballot...