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...Majesty is the first Scotswoman in over eight centuries to marry an English King, the first since Henry I married Matilda in noo A.D. She is descended from Sir John Lyon, the adventurous Thane of Glamis who in 1376 won as his bride Princess Jean, daughter of King Robert II of Scotland. Shakespeare's tragedy of Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, goes back to an earlier legendary period, but tourists still visit the Queen's ancestral home Glamis (pronounced Glahms) Castle to see where "Macbeth did murder Duncan," King of Scotland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: After Boadicea | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...English is ut? Th' Sassanachs wha beheaded King Chairlie an' gar th' Bonnie Prince hisel tae flee tae France. An' noo they'd commit th' sacrilege o' mudrerin' th' name o' th' Standard Bearer himsel. altho' weel they ken that when God or th' Empire want something hard dane, He or It send lor th' Scots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 9, 1939 | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...Noo Yawk is not always first. For Mickey Mouse first became Art at the Art Alliance in Philadelphia last autumn; (who dares say nowadays that Philadelphia is slow?) and Mickey as Art in the temple of the muses first appeared in New York State at the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts last November, immediately following the Philadelphia showing. And verily the last shall not be first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 29, 1933 | 5/29/1933 | See Source »

...longer can the seasoned ballyhoo man in the passing charabane jerk a grimed finger at the old house, and in condescending monotone comment on Noo Yawk's mystery house, home of Ella Wendel, richest unmarried dame the country's got. The public has laughed for the last time at the dying Wendels; for Ella's nearest of kin is Tobey, the poodle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEW YORKER | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

...Lissa. And now Hagar had strangled the "woman-chaser," Gilly, strangled him before he could do her Lissa hahm." Mamba was furious, feared the scandal might ruin Lissa's career as a lady and as a singer. Quick in emergency, she packed Lissa off to a friendly parson in "Noo Yo'k;" and ordered Hagar to keep her mout' shet if caught and questioned about the murder. But Hagar knew the prying prosecutor would "dig and dance and circle" until he had wrung from her the whole story involving Lissa, so she chose the quieter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Worry | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

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