Word: highlander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gillies' (servants') ball given by the King and Queen to 300 tenants and employes on the royal estates in Scotland. Clasped by gardeners, game wardens, footmen, chefs, guests, Queen Mary reeled and pivoted in twelve of the 14 Highland flings, polkas and Circassian circles that were on the program...
Doctors of Evanston, Highland Park, Ravinia and Lake Forest, Illinois communities along Lake Michigan shore north of Chicago, announced last week that they would charge double fees for calls they received after 7 p. m. Their decision excited comment in the Chicago Journal of Commerce, business newspaper...
...Opening Day" in Ontario found no riots, no tremendous exodus from the U. S., no Detroit invasion of Windsor. It did find, however, interminable queues of applicants lined up before the liquor-store doors. The first U. S. citizen to make a purchase was one Fayette Bristol of Highland Park (Detroit suburb); Mr. Bristol toted away an undetermined quantity of Old Crow whiskey...
...Markle, oldtime anthracite coal operator, was for 47 years general superintendent and president of the Jeddo-Highland Coal Co. of Jeddo, Pa. Retired, he has established the John and Mary R. Markle Foundation to promote the general good of mankind. The foundation will aid and maintain medical research centres, hospitals, charitable institutions, libraries; help destitute persons; will eventually, said Mr. Markle, rival the scope of the Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations...
This much is certain, that Ahmed Bey Zogu is no mere young adventurer in the pay or under the dominant spell of Dictator Mussolini. His tribal family is among the most ancient in Albania, and its wild, remote highland strongholds between Tirana and Scutari are probably impregnable to an army not especially equipped for mountaineering. There Ahmed Bey Zogu is not so much President of Albania as Chief of the Mati tribes...