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...Member Kirkwood began to welsh when he complained that farming on Jura would mean giving up Parliament. Replied Lady Astor: "Nothing is further from my mind than to be responsible for depriving Parliament of your services...
Worried about the terms of the bargain, Farmer-to-be-Kirkwood began to hedge. "Are there to be six cows and a horse...
Scottish David Kirkwood, M. P. for Dumbarton Burghs on the ship-building Clyde, depends for Parliamentary repartee largely on two phrases: "Put that in your pipe and smoke it" (when he has made a killing shot); and "I don't give a damn" (when he has been worsted). Once he was suspended from the House for swearing at the Speaker. Last week the vaulted ceiling of the House rumbled with his rolling r's as he declared that millions of acres of land devoted to deer parks in Scotland (see map), most of it owned by titled gentry...
...Astor, ever ready to put in her tuppence worth, interrupted. She owns a deer park on the Isle of Jura, she said, which is all moss and peat and "fit for nothing but deer." Not even trout could be raised on it. Spunkily Lady Astor offered to build Mr. Kirkwood a cottage on her deer park on Jura and bet him he could not make a living off it. Machinist Kirkwood is no farmer, but he accepted-much too hastily, it turned out. The discussion was continued in the lobby...
...Murray Kirkwood, instructor in Government, will speak this evening at 7:15 o'clock in the Upper Common Room of the Union on the subject: "Germany Should Dominate Central Europe...