Word: scotch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Marie Corelli, 60, at Stratford-on-Avon; author of best sellers for 40 years: The Sorrows of Satan, The Murder of Delicia, Problem of a Wicked Soul, God's Good Man, The Devil's Motor, The Secret Power, etc., etc. She was of mixed Italian and Scotch Highland blood, was adopted in infancy by Charles Mackay, famed song writer, who afterwards sent her to a French convent to be educated. Queen Victoria admired her work; Tennyson wrote her a letter of encouragement...
...tonight, Mr. Thomas B. White, who has been appointed coach for the spring training season, will speak Mr. White has a long record of achievement as a player and referee, and is at present, Vice-president of the Boston Referee's Association. During the match between the English and Scotch team in this country last year, Mr. White was the referee. In his youth, he was a well known payer on junior teams in Scotland. While in this country, he has always been prominently identified with the game, playing with the Boston Rovers, and for two years, managing the championship...
...committeeman of Old South Church, Boston, was summering some 40 years ago at Bar Harbor, Me. One day he went over to Northeast Harbor to ask President Eliot to suggest a new minister for his church. President Eliot named a young Scotch preacher at Greenwich, Conn., whom he had recently put through Harvard, saying: "I think he will grow, particularly if he should get the right sort of wife...
...William Beebe's latest scientific and literary exploits. His new book* issued under the auspices of the New York Zoölogical Society, is a saga of man, the ever-curious, in a garb that fits the tale, replete with gorgeous color plates, beautiful photography, 12 point Scotch Roman type, and a style that would make scientists of morons. One of the publishing triumphs of the decade...
...amazed," said the Scotsman, "at a great many of my old friends saying that the Scottish Sabbath was a burden. I would like to see a state of society where every man and woman preferred the old Scotch Sabbath to the modern French one, because in that state of society you would have fine, solid, eternal foundations of character and self-command...