Word: scotchman
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...discerning Marshall Field had made him his confidential clerk. At Mr. Field's death, Simpson, then 32, became Second Vice President of the firm in association with such prominent men as Potter Palmer, Harlow N. Higinbotham, John G. Shedd, Henry T. Willing, H. Gordon Self ridge. The towheaded young Scotchman, alert and hardworking, made his way among them. He is not a great talker, but generally says what he thinks. Once in his younger days he went to Mr. Field demanding a raise...
...National Aeronautic Association, a Bostonian of the great Cabot clan, so far interested in New York City as to advocate Governor's Island as a landing field, but in a cool detached manner; R. E. M. Cowie, President of the American Railway Express, a canny, able old Scotchman, describing how the pushcart gave way to the horse-cart, the horse-cart to the express train, and predicting that the Express company will give unlimited business to the first responsible air transport company; Grover C. Loening, Manhattan society man, young, sparkling, decidedly of the "beaumonde" yet one of the ablest...
...necessarily educated because he is learned. Nor is he an educated man simply because he is a university man, added this son of a farm laborer who was thrilled last July when the University of Glasgow gave him its degree, the greatest of prizes in the eyes of a Scotchman. A man may be educated for a that and a that...
...genuine Scotchman, Edinburgh born and bred, will play the role of MacGregor, a Scotch character, in "The Scarlet Coat", the musical comedy which is to be given by members of the Princeton Triangle Club at the Boston Opera House on Saturday evening...
...Macfarlane is a Scotchman, 68 years old, educated in Edinburgh. He was Professor of Botany at Pennsylvania from 1893 to 1919 and stands high in his specialty. He has been studying the relation of fish to petroleum for 50 years. Scientists familiar with his work attest its authenticity...