Word: sporran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Around dour Glasgow, there were seats to be won or lost by the hair of a sporran. Stubby Scotsmen in sack suits, caps pulled down and pipes jutting from the crags of their faces, listened to the rough organ music of Aneurin Bevan. "In the Labor Party, it's true we've been having an argument about the hydrogen bomb, and I've been in the middle of it to a certain extent." The crowd laughed appreciatively at his understatement. "We argue . . . over our policy . . . We don't reach our policy in quiet country houses...
Stardy, handsome Scotch woven and leather goods are the specialty at NICOLSONS, 133 Newbury Street, Boston. Above is a Sporran bag, for over the shoulder. The shop also features the latest imported suits, capes, coats, sweaters, and jackets from the land of the moors, where fine woolen goods have been produced for centuries. The bag combines the old art of leathercrafters, with the utility of modern style. It's priced...
...they are told, but the government has no say in their choice of doctors. As Duke of York and then as King, George VI took as his family doctor a homeopath, Sir John Weir, who had attended both his mother and elder brother Edward. A genial Scot with a sporran full of jokes on himself and his countrymen, 72-year-old Sir John is flanked by two other family physicians: Welsh-born Dr. Daniel Davies, 51, a topnotch pathologist, and Sir Horace Evans, 48, specialist in diseases of the kidneys, urinary tract and arteries...