Word: scotland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Detectives from Scotland Yard being perennial favorites, Author George Dilnot catalogs their technique; and includes, gratuitously, a murder, escape, poison, embezzlement, beautiful heroine, mad villain ?all in The Black Ace (Houghton-Mifflin...
Died. The Countess of Lauderdale, able miniature painter and socialite of London, Palm Beach and Thirlestane Castle, Lauder, Scotland; after a long illness; in Palm Beach...
...with PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE of INCIDENTS in his LIFE, particularly in his earlier years, which may contain matter of historical or personal interest, will send to her such letters or send her brief descriptive statements of such incidents. Communications should be addressed to her personally at Bemersyde, St. Boswells, Scotland. Letters and statements are required to furnish material for the official life of the Field-Marshal which will be written at some future time. All letters will be carefully preserved and copied and the originals returned to senders with the least possible delay...
Simpson. Last week, however, Banker O'Leary appeared hesitant, and Chicagoans considered another logical candidate for the post. As head of Marshall Field & Co., James Simpson runs Chicago's greatest, perhaps the world's greatest department store. Born in Glasgow, Scotland (1874), James Simpson arrived in the U. S. at the age of six. The year 1860 was a milestone in Chicago's history, for in that year its population climbed above the half million mark. James Simpson was an obscure six-year-old among the 10,000 newcomers who made Chicago a real metropolis...
Cited by Laborite Ponsonby as an instance of "unofficial propaganda" is the deed of Miss Kate Hume of Dumfries, Scotland. In 1914 she forged and gave to the British press a purported letter from her sister, Miss Grace Hume, in which the latter was supposed to write that her right breast had been hacked off by Germans in Belgium. Since Miss Grace Hume had never been out of England and was sensitive about her breast, she denounced her sister, but not until the story had grown to national prominence...