Word: highlander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...uncrowned 'King of Scotland' is a title that has been made for Lord Rosebery, whose country has had faith in him from the beginning. Mr. Gladstone was the only other man who could make so many Scotsmen take politics as if it were the Highland Fling. Once when Lord Rosebery was firing an Edinburgh audience to the delirium point, an old man in the hall shouted out: 'I dinna hear a word he says, but it's grand, it's grand...
Captain Ernest Ingram, famed divorced husband of the widow of Enrico Caruso, dashed out upon the floor and gave vent to a "Scotch Highland Charleston...
...Kentucky, contiguous to Tennessee, Miss Lela V. Scopes, like her brother an Evolutionist, was refused reappointment to her position in the Paducah schools. Smiling, she announced that she had signed a contract to teach in the Highland Manor School for Girls at Tarrytown...
...Other important Chicago suburbs : Riverside, whilom seat of Society; Hinsdale and Wheaton, gentleman-farmer communities; Oak Park, Rogers Park and Wilmette, ''middle class" communities, civic-spirited; Evanston, puritanical and efficient; Kenilworth, Winnetka and Glencoe, more countrified and country-clubby; Highland Park, a cross between these and the larger pretensions of Evanston; Lake Forest, "the Newport of the Middle West...
Died. Frances Louise Tracy Morgan, 82, widow of the late J. P. Morgan; in Highland Falls, N.Y. At her bedside were her three daughters: Anne, patron of numerous charitable organizations; Juliet, wife of William Pierson Hamilton, Manhattan banker; Louisa, wife of Herbert Livingston Satterlee, Manhattan lawyer. J. P. Morgan, son, was summoned home from a European trip, arrived too late...