Word: cairne
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...imprint appears little bawdry. Nevertheless, upon one of their books last fortnight was visited censorship. Last week the book began to sell rapidly. Entitled Peggy and Peter: What They Did Today ($2.50), it is a picture book for children, representing the activities of a pair of moppets and a Cairn bitch named Sally, all of whom posed for Photographer Lena Towsley. Before publication, a number of women scanned the volume, discovered a photograph which they disapproved. It showed Peggy & Peter (see cut) saying their prayers. The ladies objected. Puzzled but agreeable, Publishers Farrar & Rinehart deleted the photograph from the published...
...grave was planted over and over with green flowers. From a height of 5.400 metres it looks out over the Zemu Glacier and behind rise the ruddy sheer walls of Kanchenjunga. At the head we have erected a gigantic cairn...
Died. Snip, cream cairn terrier, favorite pet of King George V; after choking on a feather while stalking the Royal pigeons at Windsor Castle...
...stands there. All of the family maintain a lively interest in the church, and Harold received part of his schooling in its academy. Like de la Cierva, Harold Pitcairn learned to fly as a youngster, but he did not engage seriously in aviation until 1924. He founded Pit cairn Aircraft Co. at Willow Grove, Pa., and in 1925 went to Spain to discuss the autogiro with de la Cierva. In 1928 he brought the first autogiro to the U. S. and with part of the fortune which he realized from sale of his profitable New York-Atlanta airmail route...
...third and last time, when he embarked on the Antarctic trip that killed him nine years ago. She wanted to see the white frozen country where his body lies. But the Stella Polaris will not put in at South Georgia where he is buried beneath a cairn of cold stones...