Word: caledonian
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...give Charlie time to flee through a trapdoor. It is not for mere moral support to a prince in his hour of need that Scottish ladies' societies around the globe are named in honor of noble Flora. To omit her finest hour is to mock the mettle of Caledonian womenhood...
First prizes in two events went to hefty Willo Fisher in the track meet of the Caledonian Club's ninety-third annual Scotch picnic, at Russell Field in North Cambridge last Saturday...
Canadian Scots protested, tradition or no. They pointed out that the Vancouver Glengarry Girls Pipe Band wears knee-revealing kilts and that no Gael feels affronted. Said Robert Fiddes, president of the Vancouver St. Andrew's and Caledonian Society: "A kilt improves the look of any lassie." A regulation kilt, he declared, should fall just above the knee, not below. A true Scot is proud to show his knees, no matter how bony, and a lassie should be allowed to do the same-"she certainly has more to show...
...Presbyterian parson, "the best man I have ever known," wry-faced little John Buchan grew up in the poetry and parsimony of the Scottish border, went to Oxford on Caledonian determination and a shoestring, published his first book (Scholar Gipsies) to help pay his college expenses. He was admitted to the bar, but his life work really began when he was made Private-Secretary to the High Commissioner for South Africa, Lord Milner. From Milner and Kitchener he absorbed an extraordinary philosophy of empire which inspired him to the end of his days. This philosophy, which the later John Buchan...
...sound apparatus like that used for detecting the presence of submarines. L. N. M. Co. will determine Nessie's size, her speed of travel, and whether she is, as various eyewitnesses and scientists have declared: 1) an elephant seal which swam in from the North Sea via the Caledonian Canal; 2) a hippopotamus; 3) a 50-ft. prehistoric reptile with a whiskery pinhead and eight scaly humps; 4) a giant squid; 5) "an abomination with a three-arched neck"; 6) a cold-blooded crocodile; 7) a cool fabrication...