Word: tartans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lucius was wearing a new bow tie--Ivy Tartan, the salesman had called it--and the question rather flattered him. Usually Lucius never tended his appearance, but today was Mother's birthday, and it seemed special. (That was why he'd eaten...
...when the hardhearted vet orders Thomasina to be chloroformed. She is buried to the skirl of bagpipes, but the vet's brokenhearted daughter won't speak to him. How the witch magically restores Thomasina to life, unveils the heart of gold under the cruel vet's tartan, and marries the man provides a fascinating and horrible example of how not to write about animals...
This first novel by Scots Author James Kennaway is a tartan tragedy with comic and eerie overtones like drunken laughter heard through a mist and haunting as the sound of army boots on wet cobbles...
...appeared at a press photographers' dinner on June 9, less than two hours before he woke up with a world-shaking "bellyache" (TIME, June 18). His hosts last week: The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, celebrating with formal dress and caviar its 75th anniversary. Sharp in a tartan cummerbund presented him by the Black Watch, famed British Highland regiment, the guest of honor disposed of steak, enjoyed the Hollywood-flavored floor show, then delivered a low-keyed address saluting American trade unionists as "the living proof that Marx was wrong...
...Adlai Stevenson's house the night of the primary vote in Minnesota. You say it was to be "a black tie dinner." It wasn't. There wasn't a black tie there, and the "red tartan dinner jacket" that Stevenson wore is not a dinner jacket but a dilapidated spare coat. You say "with only his really good friends in politics invited." There were two people for supper at his house that night: Stevenson and a friend from out of town, George Ball. Stevenson's law partner Bill Wirtz and his wife arrived about...