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...TRIAL OF VINCENT DOON-Will Oursler-Simon & Schuster...
...Doon, an artist, is on trial for paper-knifing Edwin Hallett, his fellow house guest in the Van Eyck mansion in Manhattan, for love of Betty Van Eyck. It is a novelty item, presented as exact transcript of the trial itself, with sketches and photographs...
...fond of a guide Scotch burr, gang doon tae the Fine Arts and see the new Harry Lauder picture. It's full of highland accents and angular-Scottish faces that smack of the stories of Sir Walter Scott, set against the background of the lochs and the mountains. Harry Lauder is now a very old man but he can still put across a song and play the comic. The ballads he sings are dear to all the hieland lads and lassies who have come over to this country, and most of Boston's Scotch are down at the theatre tapping...
...lonely castle on Maxwelton's hillside the year's real problem was a pretty, dark-eyed girl who fancied she loved a rakish soldier. The girl was Annie Laurie. The soldier, one Willie Douglas of Fingland, wrote verses to her, offered to lay himself "doon an' dee." Annie Laurie's parents locked her in her stone-walled bedroom until she stopped her mooning, sadly consented to marry respectable Alexander Fergusson who had rich holdings in Cragdarroch down the glen. Willie Douglas went off and got married soon after. Annie Fergusson grew plump and placid. Nearly...
During the three months since December 6, 1933, that memorable day when prohibition went out of effect, records of more than 200 sales to Harvard students have been kept and nearly half of the customers gratified their thirst with the amber product of the Bonnie Banks Doon. Of the 200 purchasers, 97 chose cotch whiskey and some of the more popular brands that have been finding flavor with the students are "Stoddard's", "Johnny Walker," "Glen Finnan," and McNair's", all testifying by their names to genuine Gaclic ancestry...