Word: scotlanders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...debarked last week in Manhattan from England was my latest acquisition, Junever, pedigreed Labrador setter which I bought from the Duke of Connaught for $525. 'Junever,' said I, 'is a good dog for picking up dead birds.' I used Junever while shooting grouse at my Scotland estate. I brought also two chests filled with rare manuscripts valued at $375,000, for the Morgan Library in Manhattan...
...regard which able men yield to an able, modest confrere. It may be at New Haven, Manhattan, Strassburg, Leipzig, Breslau, Berlin, where he has studied; or at Philadelphia, Cleveland, Cambridge, (Mass.) , Cambridge (Eng.), Princeton, Chicago, Washington or elsewhere, where he has received honorary degrees; in the U. S., England, Scotland, Austria, Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, where he belongs to learned societies; or Japan...
Tearful Valediction. That he might say a personal farewell to his followers Lord Oxford and Asquith journeyed to address a throng of Liberals at Greenock, Scotland. Before he spoke, the audience sang "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow," and cheered throughout his dignified address...
Rain poured. Nineteen guns boomed. The Empress of Scotland docked at Quebec last week bearing Freeman Freeman-Thomas, Viscount Willingdon, the new Governor General of Canada (TIME, June...
...Disappearance of the Mound-builder civilization from the Great Lakes and Mississippi Basin in the 12th Century. (The indomitable Norse first began coming to America in the 11th Century.) 4) Presence in the Mound-builder country of earthworks identical with mounds of known Norse origin in Scandinavia and Scotland. (Mr. Brewer did not suggest that the Moundbuilders had not followed their burial customs for centuries before the Norse came; he simply suggested that Norsemen in America might have followed their own burial customs also...