Word: scotlande
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Naturally a matter of taste. Hers is admittedly one of the oldest in Scotland. His, by comparison, is a relative upstart in England...
...Story. Courtship, for Mary, began in the cradle. At four months she made her first conquest. Henry VIII sought her tiny hand for his infant Prince. But England was Scotland's hereditary foe; France the friend of her traditions and of the religion of the Scottish court. Mary's betrothal to the French Dauphin (Francis...
Upon her return to Scotland, Mary and her counselors formed ambitious plans for marrying her to Don Carlos, son of morose Philip of Spain, or to the Archduke of Austria, or into the royal family of France. Scotland was the backdoor to England. Queen Elizabeth was determined Mary should make no "mighty marriage," was fertile in expedients, threats, cajolery. Her Scottish Protestant counselors urged her to a decision as to Mary's marriage: "Remember how earnestly she is sought otherwyse; you see the lustiness of her boddie, you know what these thynges require . . . Loss of her time is our destruction...
Professor Murray after taking several degrees at Oxford University, became professor of classical languages at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. In 1908 he returned to Oxford as Professor of Greek, and has remained there since. In 1923 he was appointed as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the League of Nations and during the past three years has been active in efforts for world peace...
...past courtesies, the Cunard Line last week announced a new kind of trip abroad, for him alone. Perhaps, for steamship companies are very understanding, a special trip for Mrs. G. H. will be thought up later. But for the present, her husband is invited to go to Scotland, stay at the best hotels, play any that he chooses of 48 golf courses (riding to and from the links by motor) and return in five weeks, all for a flat sum (unstated in the advertisement). The only extra expenditures he will have will be discretionary incidentals like caddy hire,* new balls...