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When famed Elizabeth, alleged virgin queen, used to tour her realm, feudal lords would nearly bankrupt themselves to feed her and entertain her. But today, while Socialists control many a public purse string, the royal gambols are distinctly gambles. Only after long haggling did the City Council of Glasgow decide, by a lean majority, to entertain the King-Emperor and Queen-Empress on their summer visit (TIME, Feb. 28). But the Socialists continued to fight and last week the Council reversed itself, voting, 25 to 11, that there will be no luncheon at public expense for Their Majesties. Tactful, George...
...Glasgow the shrewd city fathers debated hotly a similar matter: whether they would appropriate Ł15,000 ($72,900) to entertain the Sovereigns next July. Cried Councilman Douglas MacConaughty, striking the table with his cane: " 'Twud na' be worth it! Ha' we a brass farthin' too many in the common good funds?" His peers, more hospitable, voted the appropriation...
...sending out from your station. I am listening in every night from Monday until Thursday. Would like you to announce my name from your station next Thursday night, saying how well I received the program in Truro. I am quite a Scotch entertainer myself. My home is Glasgow, Scotland. I am on the staff of the college here in charge of the Physical Training...
Professor Adams is a graduate of Glasgow University, Scotland, and was knighted by King George in 1925 for his service to education. He is Examiner in all the universities of England, a Fellow of the College of Preceptors, London, and Principal of the London Day Training College, a school of the University of London. He has been principal of Aberdeen and Glasgow Training Colleges, and lecturer in Education at the University of Glasgow, as well as president of the Educational Institute of Scotland, and of the British Association, Educational Section. In 1902 Dr. Adams was named University Professor of Education...
...portraiture has icy precision. Epigrams rattle like hail. Southern stuffiness?the scene is Queen-borough, Va.?is snowed under by pretty drifts of poetic irony. It is engaging reading?but the wrong person wrote the book, overwrote it, if these generation-comparisons are to be taken seriously. Miss Glasgow is too merciless to make her Judge bearable; too doctrinaire to know what she means by Annabel. The best character is Gamaliel's twin sister, Edmonia, who lost her virtue young, married four times and loves to tell about...