Word: border
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bride, handsome, wholesome, dark-browed Lady Alice Christabel Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 33, daughter of an ancient fighting family of Border Scots, was given a total of five tiaras by the groom's family...
...Both the Duke of Gloucester and his fiancée, Lady Alice Scott, are keen motorists, and it is no secret in Selkirkshire that their engagement was largely the outcome of their joint motoring trips in the beautiful Border country during the past two years...
...being one of the reasons why her semi-invalid father, the Duke of Buccleuch, prefers her as a driver to any other member of his family. Another keen motorist in the family is Lord George Scott, the Duke's youngest son, who is often seen driving along the Border roads in a 20-h.p. Armstrong Siddeley...
...nearly always visits his fiancée's family by car. The Duke's favorite at the moment is a Sunbeam, and Lady Alice now knows as much about the car as the Duke himself. She has driven it often with the Duke sitting beside her, and Border rumor has it that he actually proposed...
...Japanese rage at Nanking's fresh talk of Russia erupted in grim remarks by Japanese militarists that at the first real sign of a Nanking switchback toward Moscow, soldiers of the Divine Emperor will drive a Japanese wedge of conquest between the Soviet Union and China by seizing border lands...