Word: scotlande
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night a Scotland Yard detective watches a plain brass knocker and the neatly engraved doorplate which bears the legend "No. 10" and marks the extremely modest Downing Street town-house of the British Prime Minister. There that exuberant countryman, Premier Stanley Baldwin, seems always a trifle like a ruddy-faced squire come up to London for perhaps the fifth or sixth time in his life...
...will then traipse around Sunningdale, Walton Heath, Hoylake and Ranelagh, humbly admiring his niblick shots and vocabulary. That divides the misery, and on Sunday they will both be seasick crossing the Channel to drink Parisian champagne and reiterate, "Combien?" He would really have liked to play up in Scotland. She pined to see Italy and ride in a gondola. But they are an understanding couple. They compromise on Paris...
...uncrowned 'King of Scotland' is a title that has been made for Lord Rosebery, whose country has had faith in him from the beginning. Mr. Gladstone was the only other man who could make so many Scotsmen take politics as if it were the Highland Fling. Once when Lord Rosebery was firing an Edinburgh audience to the delirium point, an old man in the hall shouted out: 'I dinna hear a word he says, but it's grand, it's grand...
Professor Adams is a graduate of Glasgow University, Scotland, and for 24 years has been University Professor of Education at the University of London. Last year he was knighted by King George for his services in advancing the study of education. He is examiner in all the universities of England, a Fellow of the College of Preceptors, in London, and Principal of the London Day Training College, a school of the University of London...
Previously, Professor Adams was Principal of Aberdeen and Glasgow Training Colleges, lecturer in Education at the University of Glasgow, as well as president of the Educational Institute of Scotland, and of the British Association, Educational Section. In 1922 Dr. Adams became Emeritus, and since that time has been on a world lecture tour which has included the universities of New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa. He has already lectured in several American universities and at present is giving a course in the University of Southern California. Next summer he will return to the Pacific Coast to lecture in the Summer...