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...brocht up ("raised" we say oot here) among the Ayrshire yokels, an' I dinna min' seein' them gap much, except when they might be tryin' tae read a newsmagazine as dull as TIME. No that ony siccan drivel was produced in Ayrshire, but there bein' nae censorship on dullness, some yawn-provokers frae the ootside at times got on tae the newsstaunds, an' were whyles bocht by chaps that werena "on" tae their contents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Secret | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...Dublin. But "Tim" did not give "two hoots" what anybody thought and everybody knew it. And even if the opposition has come to be better known and less associated with assassinations, "sure and to goodness thair's no raison at all, at all, why Tim Healy should stop bein' Tim Healy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMONWEALTH: Irish Dissolution | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

Miss West is of an old Scotch-Irish family. Her mother was a musician and came of a family of musicians. Her father was Irish, from County Kerry - descended, I believe, from Sir Anthony Derry whom Hol- bein painted and who was a Privy Councillor under Henry VIII...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rebecca West | 11/5/1923 | See Source »

...Lane '24, will form the Crimson foil squad, while J. S. Barss '22 and J. K. Watson '23 will handle the duelling swords. Bertzberg, Liao, Chapman and Cook will defend the Green and White. The University men have so far been undefeated, their last match bein a 9-0 victory against Pennsylvania. Captains Hertzberg and Boyce have faced each other four times previously; thus far each has won twice, and tomorrow's match will be especially interesting as marking the climax of this unique series...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fencers Face Dartmouth Tomorrow | 2/24/1922 | See Source »

...discontent, and then it distracts his mind from harmful meditation on the probable results of the world war, or the possibilities of more comprehensive knowledge of the fourth dimension. As David Harum says, "A certain amount of fleas is good fer a dog, it keeps him from worryin' about bein...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN OLD CUSTOM JUSTIFIED | 10/11/1916 | See Source »

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