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...four Glasgow University students who took the Stone from Westminster Abbey had been tracked down by Scotland Yard. They had "voluntarily" turned their loot over to the authorities with an unsigned note to King George apologizing for any indignity they might have caused him. No arrests were made and none was likely...
...appointed by the government to boss the state's fledgling Iron & Steel Corp., which will run the industry, had been one of the stars of British free enterprise. Steven Hardie, a brawny, 65-year-old Scot, had risen from an obscure position as a chartered accountant in Glasgow to captain of industry (scrap-metal tycoon, oxygen-tank manufacturer). He owned, among other properties, five farms in Australia and one in Rhodesia, a mansion in London's Mayfair. Known as a tough taskmaster, Hardie likes to relax with a good cigar, slips away as often...
...University of California (founded 1868) ever took it into their heads to toss rotten eggs at a commencement speaker, people in the U.S. and around the world would know what to think: it would be the final, but not unexpected, proof of U.S. cultural barbarism. At the University of Glasgow (founded 1451), students have been throwing things for generations, have made public uproar an honored tradition. A visiting Frenchman once called Glasgow's men "the greatest bunch of savages in Europe," and Glaswegians took it as a compliment. Last week, stimulated by both the university's 500th anniversary...
When Scottish Nationalist Dr. John MacCormick, Glasgow's new rector (TIME, Oct. 30), stood up to make his acceptance speech in St. Andrew's Halls, he was greeted with a shower of overripe tomatoes, firecrackers, toilet paper and bursting flour sacks. His address, which he manfully finished in spite of it all, was punctuated by the blare of trumpets, sirens and whistles. One student dressed in long underwear ran on to the stage bearing a torch; later, someone released a quacking duck at MacCormick's feet. Two other students stretched a rope across the auditorium, did acrobatics...
Destiny's Ransom. At week's end the Glasgow Daily Record published a petition, addressed to King George, which it had received through the mail. The petitioners, who did not sign their names, boasted that they had taken the Stone of Destiny, offered proof by giving unpublished but accurate details of the wrist watch left behind in the Abbey. They petitioned that the Stone be kept in Scotland henceforth, and taken to London only for the coronation of the King's successors...