Word: scotlanders
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Englishmen are inclined to, so patronizing towards "barbarous" Americans. Your question ought really to be turned around. Why don't Englishmen visit America? Enough of us go abroad as it is. If the English would come here instead of going year after year to Scotland, or the seashore, or France for their vacations, they would learn to admire us as we admire them. I have had the pleasure of entertaining several friends from "over there" and they were unanimous in saying they "could not believe their eyes," and absolutely surprised by what we are like at home...
...scandal was unearthed at Scotland Yard last week, and London's police commissioner, General Lord Byng of Vimy, Viscount of Thorpe-le-Soken, sat up all night to investigate it. Bolshevik agents were said to be learning British troop movements with amazing promptitude. Officers of the special political branch of Scotland Yard were accused of fraternizing with foreign agents and communists...
...fatally and mysteriously struck in the neck. Two tiny pricks in a patch of angry red flesh suggested snakebite. But a London "bobby" had been watching the luckless man for some time, and could testify that neither snake nor biped had been near him. Mercurial Mr. Meadows of Scotland Yard was baffled; but the Three tracked the criminal along circuitous bypaths of villainy, killed him with his own venomous mechanism. Just what that was-"Crime Club members never tell...
Good recent Wallaces are The Clever One, an engrossing tale of counterfeit money, and The Twister, ingenious yarn of English race tracks and Dutch diamond swindles. Old favorites are: A King by Night, The Green Archer, The Door with Seven Locks, The Girl From Scotland Yard, two of which Queen Mary bought at a London three-penny-six-penny shop for the king (TIME, March...
...verse proceeds, Lindbergh describes all of his equipment, and his goal. The City of New York asks ships at sea to watch for him. The Empress of Scotland answers that she has sighted him. The fog cries out: "I am the fog, turn about." Lindbergh retorts: "That will I not." The snow storm speaks, says it has tried to destroy him, to bury him in the waters of the Atlantic. A typical passage...