Word: scotch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rence?Seltzerr ($2.00). This volume contains three long stories, each a vivid symbolic study of a character caught in the spiritual unrest following the war. In The Captain's Doll an Austrian countess is forced to earn her living by making doll-figures, one of a Scotch captain whom she marries after the death of his wife. The doll symbolizes the fact that even an adoring wife tries to "make a doll of her husband." In The Fox a young returned soldier woos and wins an older woman, who tries to run a farm. In Ladybird an English countess...
...Glee Club then turned to the realm of folk-song and in the Scotch and Irish ballads they sang with a fire and lilt which delighted the audience. The Bach finale, despite the too liberal use of brasses and organ, was a veritable burst of glory...
...candidates for the soccer team will be held tonight at 7 o'clock in the Varsity Club. The meeting will be addressed by Mr. W. R. Welch, who coached the team last fall and who will supervise the practice this spring. Mr. William Thomson, formerly a member of the Scotch soccer team and now an instructor at the University, will also speak, and the work for the coming season will be outlined by Captain F. G. Wade...
...with an allowance of 67,607, landed only about 21,500 immigrants in seven months. The remarkable case, however, is that of the United Kingdom, which for the first time since the passing of the restrictive immigration law promises to fill its quota-the largest of any nation. English, Scotch, Welsh and Irish immigrants are now arriving at the rate of 2,800 a week. If this immigration should continue, it would twice fill the British quota of 77,342 in the course of a year...
Mile. Suzanne Lenglen: "I received an offer of $13,000 for twelve matches in America and of only $180 for a match at Durham, England, which must be near the Scotch border...