Word: scotlanders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despatches reported last week that the Prince of Wales allowed his finger prints to be taken on the occasion of his visit to Scotland Yard. Sir William Horwood, the Commissioner, was quoted: "If I may say so, the lines upon your Royal Highness' thumbs present a quite unusual formation...
...British Isles. Gales and floods laid thousands of acres of land under water to the hedge tops. In England the Thames overflowed disastrously at Windsor and notably throughout its entire valley. A cyclone passed over Western Scotland, and the Clyde overflowed at Glasgow. Only a single telegraph line was working out of Dublin, and at London, Edinburgh and Glasgow all overhead telephone lines were down. The cross-channel packets were buffeted by 40-foot waves...
...hours later the long arm of the British secret service had reached out and seized him. For months Mr. Basil Thomson, Assistant Commissioner of Scotland Yard, had been waiting for Sir Roger to appear. During the course of the trial before Lord Chief Justice Reading,* Mr. Thomson was not only instrumental in securing the conviction and subsequent execution of Sir Roger Casement, but rose to such prominence himself that he was knighted, and then made Director of Intelligence of the British secret service. Since that day he has been a symbol to Britons of the maintenance of law and order...
Late despatches carried Sir Basil's unequivocal denial of the charges lodged against him. His friends assert that he has been "framed" by enemies among his former subordinates at Scotland Yard. His ill-wishers declare that unless the charges against him were true, the case against him would have been instantly dismissed. Meanwhile British Communists rejoiced at the discomfiture of one of their most tireless enemies...
...unwillingness of Mrs. Gubbins to give up the insurance which is being paid her for her son's death her tendency to indulge in what Mrs. Gump called "nips", Spoofy's strange mania for burglarizing anyone on the slightest pretext, and the inevitable mixup with Scotland Yard, all provide wholesome laughs a plenty...