Word: scotlanders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Life is never easy, for the Scottish inhabitants of Fair Isle, that rain-drenched pin point of an island in the Shetlands, north of Scotland. Last week the dour-faced inhabitants, who make gaudy sweaters for golfers while they think about Death and the precepts of John Knox, found life almost intolerable. A mysterious disease caused thousands of sparrows to drop dead about the Fair Islanders as they sat grimly at their knitting. No local scientist could explain why the sparrows were falling...
Died. The Rt. Rev. George Henry Somerset Walpole, Bishop of Edinburgh, 75, "kindest man in Scotland," father of Novelist Hugh Walpole and onetime (1889-96) professor of dogmatic theology at the General Theological Seminary (Manhattan); in Edinburgh...
...said Colonel Apted, head of the University Division of Scotland Yard, when informed of the proposed dance. "I hadn't heard of it. Thank you. I'll send Detachments 2, 4, and 5a over at once. We can't be too careful of the good name of our College," he whispered to the reporter...
...among San Francisco tycoons have been thoroughly publicized. Who does not know that Robert Dollar was born in Scotland, is 85 years old, works from 12 to 16 hours a day, operates the Dollar Line, largest privately owned U. S. fleet? Famed too is Amadeo Peter Giannini, though his banking reputation has not invariably included the facts that he is a Papal Knight, that he suffers from chronic neuritis, that he does not approve of private offices. But with Dollar, with Giannini, the list of San Francisco financiers is only begun...
...village rather than second in Rome, he of course left the obvious answer that to be first in Rome was the really desirable position. In the case of Banker James Strange Alexander, the little Iberian village was Tarrytown, N. Y., where his parents had settled after their arrival from Scotland. And had Banker Alexander remained in Tarrytown he would undoubtedly have become its first banker, as even at the age of 20 he was well along the road to advancement in a Tarrytown bank. But to become a Tarrytown bank president seemed to him a meagre goal for the long...