Word: alastair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alastair Francis Buchan, 21, and John Buchcm, 27, Oxford-bred sons of Canada's Governor-General Lord Tweedsmuir (John Buchan); respectively as a Princess Louise's Dragoon Guard, a Governor-General's Footguard...
...meantime Clavers has had a recruit -towering Alastair Maclan, a proud, penurious Highlander plagued with second sight. And when Alastair went into one of his trances he saw rocks ahead. In his waking moments he ably seconded Clavers in his police duties, wooed Margaret, Jean's protegee. Margaret liked Alastair but could not do better than that: seeing her father murdered had been a shock that left her pathologically virginal. Clavers married his Jean but Alastair pined in vain for Margaret...
When weak, unpopular James II came to the throne, the whip hand passed from Clavers' party to the Covenanters. James skedaddled and William of Orange took his place. William was Clavers' old commander but the Stuarts were still his liege lords, so he and Alastair left home, rode north to raise the clans. Leading his Highlandmen's victorious charge in the Pass of Killiecrankie, Clavers fell, shot from behind by a silver bullet. With the death of their leader the Stuart cause collapsed...
...Alastair avenged his friend's murder, and by doing it shocked Margaret (who was just emerging from her pathological state) for what looked like keeps. So he went back to his craggy home to live like a hermit. Smoked out by treacherous government soldiers, he decided to go to America. On the ship whom should he see but Margaret. This time the shock was pleasant for both parties...
Accordingly, the Committee has voted the varsity rowing "H" to Alastair D. Robertson '33, Armistead B. Rood '31, Rodgers Donaldson '30, David S. M. Lanier '28, Robert W. Herr '28, George Bancroft '27, John B. Olmstead, II, '27, John H. Harwood, Jr. '27 and Robert S. Riley...