Word: hamish
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...their satirical ability, not their acting ability. But as satirists, the road company does a good job. They are not the original cast that appeared on Broadway, but for entertainment purposes they might have been just as well as not. Elizabeth Love, playing Cindy Lou, has none of the hamish inclinations which far too many road actresses have. She gives a performance that hits above specifications, combining magnolia-and-mint-julep sweetness with the righteous violence of a "snit" to make a very believable and likeable Cindy...
...judges was No Second Spring, first published novel of an unknown 28-year-old English girl. Some readers may think the book a queer selection for these days, but many may find in its stilted, sampler-like pattern an old-fashioned charm. Allison was many years younger than Hamish, her stalwart, fiery-souled preacher-husband. It had never occurred to her to doubt that she loved him: she had several children to prove it, and in Scotland in those times (early 19th Century) speculation about "love'' was not encouraged. But the hard winter trip to their new home...