Word: laird
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lord Lyell, 30, posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for valor in North Africa last year. Lord Lyell lived as a Scottish laird, died in a bayonet grapple inside a German gun pit. He was the first peer to win Britain's highest award in World War II, the fifth ever...
...Duke of Argyll, 72-year-old, 20-titled, elf-seeing, Gaelic-speaking laird of Inveraray, Scotland, received in absentia a court admonition (public reproof carrying no fine or sentence). The trouble started when 79-year-old Town Clerk Robert Sutherland Corrigall stopped by with some Department of Health recommendations for cleaning up the ducal estate. His crusty Lordship listened carefully, politely shook hands, then gave his caller a good caning followed by an offer to throw him in nearby Loch Fyne. The Duke refused to appear in court, sent word that, after seven weeks of reflection, he had apologized...
TIME Correspondent Stephen Laird, returning to the U.S. from Britain last week, gave a London's-eye view of world trends...
...Highland Fling (by Margaret Curtis; produced by George Abbott) is as Scottish as it sounds but hardly as lively. A yarn about the ghost of a rakish 18th-Century laird, it tries for both rowdy fun and romantic charm, never quite spears either...
...most of the other characters. The lead, a ghost, in order to enter heaven must convert the reprobate and attempts to do so although considerably distracted by his love for the town idiot, Silly, who likes her kisses cold and ghastly. She eventually changes her affections to the young laird, descendant of the ghost, leaving the ghost to go to heaven. The Stone of Scone is carted off to America by a Pittsburghian Scot in order that it may be safe from the English. On the occasion of its departure a send-off is given...