Word: kirriemuir
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...climbed nearby Hunter's Hill, gazed solemnly at the rain-drenched 40-ft. bonfire-pile, waiting these many days to flash the news to the country. Home Secretary John Robert Clynes who must be present at the birth, celebrated his twelfth day of waiting at divine service in Kirriemuir ("Thrums" of Sir James Matthew Barrie's stories). At Cowes, Isle of Wight, the royal yacht Victoria & Albert upped her anchor, cut the telephone cable which for three weeks had been directly connected with Glamis Castle...
Said Author Sir James Matthew Barrie (Auld Licht Idylls, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, A Kiss for Cinderella) upon being made a Freeman of his native Kirriemuir which he immortalized as "Thrums" in A Window in Thrums (1889): "I remember once being called upon in America to speak to a women's college containing 900 girls, and I said I could not, but if they would come outside one at a time I would make 900 speeches to them...
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