Word: scotlande
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Byng for Pershing. The police force in which the British public has lost confidence is that associated with the once honored name of Scotland Yard. The national hero who consented to become Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, last week, is the great "General Lord Byng of Vimy Ridge," or, less colloquially, Julian Hedworth George Byng, Baron Byng of Vimy, Viscount Byng of Vimy and of Thorpe le Soken, recently Governor General of His Majesty's Dominion of Canada (1921-26), and grandson of Field Marshal Sir John Byng who fought and conquered with the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo...
...British public knows with absolute certainty that Miss Savidge is an innocent young woman. She has submitted herself to the scrutiny of the person from whom she had most to fear, the Medical Examiner of Scotland Yard, and has been certified to be a "virgo intacta"-fact duly chronicled by the whole British press...
Vexed, the Captain rapped, "You may make it doubly strong! . . . One Scotland Yard detective, after inspecting the mail compartment and the method of protecting the mail on the Leviathan, assured me that he did not see how the robbery could have been committed aboard ship...
Died. Robert Bruce Mantell, 74, famed classic and romantic actor (East Lynne, Fedora, many a Shakespearean role) ; husband of four successive actresses: Marie Sheldon (1881-93*), Charlotte Behrens (1894-98), Marie Booth Russell (1900-11), Genevieve Hamper (1912-); in Atlantic Highlands, N. J. Born in Scotland, educated in Ireland, trained in England, he was first acclaimed in the U. S. when he appeared with Helena Modjeska in Romeo and Juliet...
Divorced. Rodney ("Gypsy") Smith, famed evangelist; by Karin Tjader Smith; in Bridgeport, Conn. She charged "intolerable" cruelty after having been persuaded to withdraw worse charges. Born in a gypsy camp in Scotland, Rodney Smith found God in the Salvation Army, in London, when he was 17. Since then, for 50 years, he has preached and sung God all over the world...