Word: scotch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London's murders increased from ten to 21 in the same period. * There was a marked increase in crimes of violence. Only last week three unidentified men held up the Clydesdale Bank, at Clydebank, near Glasgow, shot two tellers dead and escaped. Scotch police blamed "Americans...
First there were reports that early summer rains had killed off the young grouse on the Scotch, English and Welsh moors. Then there were reports that the grouse had survived the wet, were as plentiful as usual. As The Twelfth, the historic August opening of Britain's grouse season approached, the reports turned dismal again. ''Grouse disease" had thinned out the coveys. Day before The Twelfth the moors were reported soggy, dank. Consequently Scotsmen anxiously assembled at the Edinburgh and Glasgow railroad stations to note how many rich Englishmen and Americans were coming up from London...
Thus Ramsay MacDonald, his Scotch voice trembling with emotion, welcomed the ministers of six other nations to a conference in London last week to decide what could be done to save Germany from a collapse that would almost certainly drag down the rest of Europe...
...Scotch editors, always practical, announced next morning that the dresses and finery at the party were valued at $500,000 of which $250.000 was a total loss. Wrote a correspondent...
...Scotch town of Levenford, James Brodie, hatter, independent as a hog on ice, was considered an outstanding citizen, considered himself preeminent. That he was merely a hatter was a source of amusement to him; his business had brought him comfort but he thought it far beneath him. Brodie had built himself a house the town wondered at: too small for a castle, too grand for a small house. But no one laughed at Brodie to his face. A bull of a man. he had a bull's temper, a bull's disregard of neighbors' china-shops. Brutal...