Word: sporran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty-two years ago, already an old man, he returned to Mull to fulfill his dream. Masons and workmen went to work and soon the towers of Duart Castle were standing again. Last week at 98 he was the oldest Highland chieftain, with tasseled sporran and a jeweled skean dhus dirk in his stocking. But the buckles on his pumps were no brighter than his blue eyes. In addition to the hardy souls who journeyed to Duart Castle to make merry amid ancestral scenes, Macleans in Canada, India and the U. S. were drinking Sir Fitzroy 's health...
...might have been a success if it has been well written: in fact, it might have been three successes, all different in type, for it contained that many distinct elements full of possibilities in themselves but discordant when bound together. There is Clive dressed in kilt, sox, spats, and sporran; and Clive never fails to make the most out of that costume. There is a third act bedroom scene which might have been made pleasantly risque if the cast, mindful of its audience, had not continually hedged away from the issue unitl the curtain suddenly drops before anyone realizes that...
Heather Reveller of Sporran, a Scotch terrier built like a midget plough horse, whose owner. Author Willard Huntington WTright ("S. S. Van Dine"), has kennels at Haworth...
...their second child was born, the Princess Margaret Rose of York (TIME, Sept. 1, 1930). The Duke & Duchess were much in evidence at the Golden Wedding last week. Her Grace won the hearts of the assembled clansmen by treading a Highland reel with an ancient gaffer in kilts and sporran, the oldest tenant of the Strathmore estates. The Earl of Strathmore bit his drooping mustache and regarded the celebration somewhat sourly. To reporters the King's Son's Father-in-Law made almost as gloomy an announcement as a man could on his wedding anniversary: "Taxation, local...