Word: scotchman
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...Arabs last week it was quite as clear that Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald is a perfidious Scotchman because, in his recent note to the Zionists (TIME, Feb. 23), he interprets the Passfield Declaration in such a way as to start Jews again toward Palestine...
Recalling that Sir Harry's impersonations include an idiot Scotch boy who drools into a kitchen bowl, and a Scotchman who constantly wipes his nose with his sleeve, and that Sir Harry's principal joke is still the one about stinginess, Critic Andrew Dewar Gibbs summed...
...Scotchman with a nice Edinburghian taste for lore might set down in parallel columns the outstanding details of Mary Queen of Scots' wedding and Miss Anne Tyrrell...
Once there were two Scotchmen, or rather a Scotchman and a Scotch woman: now there is George C. MacKinnon. George has a nerve of iron when the returns are in gold or silver. He tells, among many stories of adventure for profit. of how he spent a morning in a cage of twenty tigers just to win a small bet. According to him these beasts had a manslaughter record which would send a gang of Chicago handiest to Sing for life. Among other things, having killed many into whose charge they had been put including one very beautiful and famous...
...epilog was a jolly lampoon of contemporary foibles, political, artistic, social. Two constables debated upon the dangerous possibilities of two paintings, one blank, one hung upside down.* Three party leaders, a Roman (Stanley Baldwin), a Druid (David Lloyd George), and a Scotchman (Ramsay MacDonald), "fitted with clockwork and vocal powers," directed electoral addresses at Joan Bull (Britain's "flapper vote"), who had to choose between them...