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...smoky dome of St. Paul's. After midnight the revellers walked away. Recently the following appeared in the London Times' "agony column"; Will the bearded Scot who greeted the New Year by stamping on my foot on steps of St. Paul's cathedral while singing "Auld Lang Syne" kindly send 30 shillings to pay medical attendance and this advertisement? - COLLEEN IN GREEN...
...Majesty's Grace, no man in Scotland has higher rank than the Moderator of the "Auld Kirk," the Church of Scotland. Only the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain takes precedence. Last week at the General Assembly in Edinburgh a new Moderator was elected. Rev. Dr. Lauchlan MacLean Watt of Glasgow Cathedral. He presided over the Assembly while delegates disapprovingly discussed a proposal to unite with the Church of England, and while one of them called Scot Ramsay MacDonald a "Sabbath-breaker" for holding "more Cabinet meetings on the Lord's Day than any one of his predecessors...
...kings and queens goes onward past the Great War and up to the present time. At last with striving it takes an upward course once more. A gray haired couple whose sons are gone drink a toast to "dignity, greatness, and peace." Outside the New Year throngs sing "Auld Lang Syne" and there is a light on the cross above St. Paul...
...children screaming and thinking it was a bomb. When she opened the door she found those eight little Roman Catholics kneeling by their bedsides praying. . . . The children invented games in which to have one leg or one arm was not a disadvantage but an advantage. . . . They called me Monsieur Auld Reekie." "If you want to start a war" advised Bishop Francis John McConnell, "mobilize the liars and get the churches to bless it." Shanghai police arrested Cinemactor Ronald Colman who was strolling the town after curfew...
...rain has been almost continuous all week. Smoky Edinburgh's traditional name of Auld Reekie ought to be changed to Auld Soakie...