Word: edinburghers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Queen Marie is the daughter of the Duke of Edinburgh, second son of Queen Victoria, uncle of George V, and of Grand Duchess Marie, daughter of Tsar Alexander III of Russia. She is, therefore, first cousin to King George, by birth a Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, by Royal Proclamation a Windsor,* by marriage a Hohenzollern, having married into the Catholic branch of that family when she became the bride of Crown Prince Ferdinand of Rumania...
GOLF WITHOUT TEARS-P. G. Wode-house-Doran ($2.50). A beguiling round of golf stories, diverting enough to amuse even the non-golfer. These breezy, non-classic, ultra-American dissertations on the Great Game are touchingly dedicated to "the immortal memory of John Henrie and Pat Rogie who at Edinburgh, in the year 1593 A. D., were imprisoned for playing of the gowf on the links of Leith every Sabbath the time of the sermonses...
Constance Mary Lyon, shopgirl, who recently claimed before an Edinburgh court to be a cousin of the Duchess of York, was declared to be the lawful child of Herbert Ernest Bowes-Lyon, nephew of the Earl of Strathmore. She is, therefore, the Duchess' cousin...
...often there were as many as five different men in charge of the daily services of a single week. The preachers who conducted the morning services from October 1 to April 1 were: Rev. H. E. B. Speight, Boston, Rev. E. C. Moore, Rev. J. R. P. Sclater, Edinburgh, Rev. W. W. Fenn, Rev. W. I. Sperry, Rev. C. L. Slattery, Bishop Coadjutor of Massachusetts, Rev. C. R. Brown of Yale, Rev. B. P. Tyler, Rev. Palfrey Perkins, Weston, Archbishop Soderblom, Primate of Sweden, Rev. S. R. Fisher, Rev. F. M. Eliot, St. Paul, Minnesota, Rev. H. E. Fosdick...
...amount of undergraduate attention. Besides being one of the foremost adherents of the school of English Realists, which numbers among its leaders Bertrand Russell, Professor Whitehead is a follow of the Royal Society of England, and was awarded the James Scott prize in 1922 by the Royal Society of Edinburgh...