Word: tartan
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Princess Elizabeth was to get her first honorary degree next week. The University of London decided the proper thing would be a Bachelor of Music. Meanwhile, a tartan sash over her white gown, she did all right in the dance department, with a fine Highland reel at the Royal Canadian Ball...
...British Army's bright young men. Strong's receding chin and horn-rimmed glasses make him look like an American caricature of an Englishman. He is a leading authority on the German Army, an able military thinker. At work he religiously wears the tartan trousers of his regiment, the Royal Scots Fusiliers; he has been accused of wearing plaid pajamas. His deputy: U.S. Colonel Thomas E. Roderick, onetime executive officer of the U.S. War Department's G-2 in Washington...
...full-scale Highland clachan squat in the middle of the fair's modernistic, pastel-shaded buildings. Like a Rob Roy setting, complete with the chief's castle, a smithy, an old fashioned inn, a bubbling burn and a 1150-ft. loch, the little village is peopled with tartan-clad Highlanders who obligingly raise a "hooech" and a skirl on the pipes for the wide-eyed visitors...
Night before, the royal family boarded their private railway coaches, bound for the traditional six-weeks holiday at beautiful Scottish Balmoral Castle. At Aberdeen, kilted King George, his Scottish Queen, and their two little princesses, decked in royal Stuart tartan, received a rousing welcome from thousands of sturdy Aberdonians, drove fifty miles along the Dee River to Balmoral Castle...
...tartan kilts Elizabeth and Rosemary Luling, aged 6 and 7, skipped off the Aquitania to visit their mother, Novelist Sylvia Thompson (Mrs. Peter Luling), 34, treated Manhattan newshawks to a precocious discourse on their Teddy bears, "M" and "Teddy": "M is only six years old, but she's a gay lady who ignores little boys. Now Teddy, he's oldish and a sober sides. But he's a liberal and wears a top hat. M does not believe in Santa Claus, and there's logic in what she says always. M appreciates classical beauty...