Word: scotlande
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marston, defending champion, survived until the semifinal. There Von Elm trampled him, 7 and 6, into his native sod. W. L. Hope, of Turnberry, Scotland, was longest-lived of the British entrants; but it was in the second round that Dexter Cummings, intercollegiate champion, did away with...
...sail for Europe. Instead of Bibles and hymnbooks, these missionaries will carry with them balls, bats, mits. Instead of love and light, these missionaries will shed baseball fanaticism over Europe. Their denominations are the Chicago White Sox (American League) and New York Giants (National League), off to barnstorm Ireland, Scotland, England, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, as they barnstormed the world together...
...Next day a kind crank wrote to the Acting British Consul in Manhattan offering to murder the distinguished British Heir Apparent. Although it was practically certain that the man was harmless, New York State Troopers, U. S. Department of State Agents and Scotland Yard Detectives "took extra precautions...
...from his Cotswold cottage to find them. Matching his wits against those of a fascinating villain, he culls clues from the subconscious mind and follows his quarry through a series of extraordinary episodes, finally stalking for a night and a day over the sinister and mist-wrapt Highlands of Scotland. Aside from its indisputable ability to excite, this work contains a wealth of character study and pungent observation that lifts it from being a thriller into being a book. The style is that of a well-read hunting-squire, talking rather fantastically at his own dinner table where, after...
...Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, Prince of Wales, Earl of Chester, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles and Great Steward of Scotland, High Steward of Windsor, K.G., K.T., G.C.S.I., G.M.M.G., G.C.I.E., G.C.V.O., G.M.B.E., I.S.O., M.C., etc., chose from all his titles that of Baron of Renfrew, boarded the good boat Berengaria, sailed...