Word: scotlande
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other players, only Katherine Standing, Richard Whorf, and Rose Gordon held parts of any considerable importance. Briggs of Scotland Yard was played by C. Wordley Huke, but the part was so typically that of a stage detective, that the importance of the role was hardly proportionate to the amount of time given it. Miss Standing was not quite successful in leaping the obstacle mentioned at the start of this article, and though the mechanics of her acting were effect, her personality was ill-suited to the portrayal of a daughter of a cheap London boarding house. Her Cockney accent left...
...comes to all men, the desire to inspect brass knuckles, handcuffs, and rusty instruments of torture came to Edward of Wales last week. He visited the famed "Black Museum" at Scotland Yard. There officials are reported to have "thrilled" him by displaying gruesome exhibits which have figured in various well known trials for every crime from murder to "crippling a baby with a toothpick...
...consensus of opinion indicates that the new motor will have a single sleeve-valve engine. This engine was perfected in Scotland, and has been widely used in the "Argyll" car abroad. Louis Chevrolet, automobile builder, has recently been trying it out with a view to adapting...
...Andrews University, oldest in Scotland (1411), conducted its annual election of a Lord Rector with the usual horseplay. As at Glasgow the week before (TIME, Nov. 2), eggs flew and smelled, herrings smelled and flew, tomatoes smelled and smelled and smashed, and cold water cascaded from the galleries of the Student Union. Arctic Explorer Dr. Fridtiof Nansen of Norway was elected with 216 votes against 160 for Novelist John Galsworthy...
...During my last trip to England and Scotland, from which I returned October 24," Writes Dr. Meiklejohn, "I attended the Conference of the Labor Party at Liverpool, and the annual meeting for the drafting of the Labor policy. The party expressed its determined opposition to communism, and the meeting was described almost unanimously by the British press as indicating the complete return of Ramsay McDonald to control and leadership...