Word: scotlanders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ministers to favorite trees from the ground, with a long pruning-saw, much resembling a medieval spear. As he prowls, thus accoutred, around his excessively historic Glamis Castle, romantic persons enjoy fancying that the Earl resembles an early owner of his domain, King Macbeth of Scotland (reigned 1040-57), who, as Shakespeare has told, murdered King Duncan in Glamis Castle...
Some three centuries after Macbeth's death, King Robert II of Scotland begot a daughter from Elizabeth Mure (first mistress, later queen), married the girl to doughty John Lyon, gave him Glamis Castle. Thence the House of Bowes-Lyon descends in unbroken line. Succeeding ancestors were created Baron Glamis (Scotch Creation, 1445), Lord Glamis (English Creation, 1606), Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, 1677, and Baron Bowes (United Kingdom Creation, 1887). All these titles of course reside in the present Premier Peer of Scotland, 14th Earl of Strathmore, Claud George Bowes-Lyon...
...Glasgow, Scotland, the Students' Union was a bedlam. The air was filled with tobacco smoke, flying playing-cards, the words and music of a slightly ribald chant, "Oh, Aimee, dear Aimee, we all love you so!" Hung in the hall were signs: GOOD OLD WHISKEY! LADIES MAY SMOKE! SCOTCH WHISKEY IS GOOD FOR ALL COMPLEXIONS! Vitreous vessels, onetime containers of whiskey, stout, champagne, were in idle profusion-all dedicated to the embarrassment of Aimee Semple McPherson, notorious evangelist who inadvertently had chosen university election time to speak to the studentry. Pitifully, persistently she tried to make herself heard above...
...James Matthew Barrie, elfin creator of Peter Pan, stood up at a bazaar, in Jedburgh, Scotland, last week, and solemnly informed his audience that on the previous night he had walked hand in hand through their village with the late Mary Queen of Scots (died...
...they drifted back from bagging grouse in Scotland, London clubmen heard three new tales, current last week in four old clubs...