Word: highlander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the Canadian Rockies around Banff, Alberta, rang with the slogan* of Scottish clans and the skirl of their bagpipes. Descendants of the early settlers from all over the Dominion gathered for their third annual Highland Gathering and Music Festival. They danced the sword dance, sailor hornpipe and Highland Fling. They contended in throwing the caber, putting the stone. But chiefly they piped the bagpipes, vying for 21 prizes...
...North American (Vandalia, Ohio)?amateur clay target, Gus Payne of Oklahoma City; women's amateur clay target, Eunice Haggard of Winchester, Ky.; junior. Bob Hardy of Galesburg, Ill.; sub-junior, Albert Meiss of Hazleton, Pa.; professional clay target. Earl Donahue of Ottumwa. Iowa; amateur doubles, Sam Jenny of Highland, Ill.; professional doubles, Rush Razee of Denver; women's doubles, Mrs. J. C. Wright of Atlanta...
...notables who put on leather patched shooting jackets, buttoned shooting spats, filled shooting flasks and rode on shaggy Highland ponies to the moors last week, included: Banker John Pierpont Morgan at Gannochy, Forfarshire; Telegraph Tycoon Clarence Hungerford Mackay at Glentromie; Engineer and Fly-fisherman Edward R. Hewitt, grandson of Philanthropist Peter Cooper, at BalmakeIlly; Philadelphia Socialite Clarence M. Clark at Murthly Castle; General John Joseph Pershing, crack shot, set out for a party at a spot he declined to name...
...rain-drenched Highland town of Inverness, the Town Councilors last week offered Freedom-of-the-Burgh to Stanley Baldwin and Ramsay MacDonald "in recognition of the distinction they have brought to Clan Donald." Not widely known is the fact that Britain's two foremost statesmen are distant cousins. Stanley Baldwin's mother was a MacDonald, his ancestors rebellious Jacobites...
...Mario Chamlee, mechanically inclined, examined garages as well as houses, found what he wanted in Highland Park. Friends heard he was going to build himself an airplane. Marouf will be repeated at Ravinia for Tenor Chamlee who recently scored a successful Paris debut in that opera. Another Highland Parker is Mme. Yvonne Gall, fresh from Paris. She will be seen and heard in Paul Dukas' Ariane et Barbe-Bhie...