Word: pipering
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...Balmoral Castle, where the late Queen Victoria was wont to indulge a "homespun taste for Scotland," journeyed British royalty to spend the weekend. Tenants, servants, and "gillies" on the Balmoral, Agergeldie and Birknall estates were bidden by their Britannic Majesties to a ball. The King's own piper, Major Forsyth, was in attendance; and, "as an interested spectator," came the Archbishop of York...
Modern dances were barred. The program consisted of Strathspeys, Circassian Circles, Spanish Gavotte, the Reel of Tulloch, eightsomes and waltzes. The Queen missed scarcely a dance, personally selected several waltz tunes,* and trod a few measures with the royal piper...
...well conceived and executed as it is. "The Show-Off" is noteworthy more as a single character than as a play. Aubrey Piper, the show-off, is untruthful enough, jaunty enough, boastful enough, ignorant enough--"Stick-transit Gloria Monday"--objectionable enough and well-meaning enough to carry any play to distinction. Louis John Bartels makes the most of his opportunities. You remember Percy and Ferdy, the Hallroom Boys. Well, the show-off is both of them and all the rest of their ilk rolled into...
...talks of the great; uneducated, he prattles of Shakespeare and quotes frightful Latin. Such men invariably fool some people; although he disgusts Mrs. Fisher (Helen Lowell) he wins the heart of her daughter Amy (Wintfred Wellington); and though the Fishers all think Amy a nit-wit to marry him. Piper proves, by his efforts to save their talented son from being swindled out of his rights as an inventor, that he is the best friend of the family...
...meeting of the University Hand last Wednesday the officers for the year 1925-26 were elected. They are Ambrose Francis Keeley '27 of Fall River, president: Richard Newton Benjamin '25 of New York, manager; Randolph Piper '27 of Lexington, treasurer; Richard Loud '27 of Belmont, secretary; and Robert Thornton smith '27 of Saco, Me., secretary...