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Word: scotsmen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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...when all Scotsmen had to suffer under the English imputation that they were hopeless provincial boors, Boswell was torn between his loyalty to his fellow Scots and his own social aspirations. At a theater once, he leaped to the defense of two Highland officers who had been pelted with apples from the gallery and greeted with cries of "No Scots! No Scots!" Boswell was so aroused that he jumped up and roared back at the galleryites: "Damn you, you rascals!" But only three months later, he wrote in his journal: "Summer will come when all Scots will be gone. Then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rake's Progress | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...skirling of the pipers has led Scotsmen into many a battle in many a faraway land. Last week kilted pipers led Scotsmen and Englishmen toward a new battlefield. From Hong Kong 1,500 men of the ist Battalion of the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders and the ist Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment boarded a British carrier for Korea in answer to General MacArthur's request for immediate ground reinforcements for his forces in Korea (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From MacDonald to MacArthur | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

...island of Todday in the Hebrides: old men stare blankly, seeing no future in their lives, young men walk glumly through the streets, and children huddle in dark corners. Why has life on Todday become so sad? Because on all the island there is no whiskey! The plight of Scotsmen without their whiskey is dragged out to its fullest...

Author: By Edward J. Sack, | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/6/1950 | See Source »

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