Word: scotlanders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...League, that they were a "dead issue". But significantly enough Latin and Greek have refused to accept this dictum. It is not, therefore, without a keen analysis of the trend of education that Viscont Finlay, former Lord Chancellor of England, upon assuming the Presidency of the Classical Association of Scotland, ventured the opinion that the tide of interest had turned in favor of the classics. That this phenonenon is not purely European is indicated by the increased enrolment in classical courses in American universities...
...more afraid of making a fault in my Latin than of the Kings of Spain, France, Scotland, the whole house of Guise, and all of their confederates...
...Asquith confined his activities to Paisley, where he attended a Party meeting in the company of ex-Premier Lloyd George. The Chair-man opened the proceedings by stating that the marriage of the Liberal Party was celebrated in London, but that the honeymoon was to be spent in Scotland. Mr. Asquith said: " In the presence of my right honorable friend and colleague, I may say that his presence here is conclusive and sincere evidence that we are at one." Mr. George said: " It has been a deep and sincere grief to me that we ever separated. It is a real...
...modern "Sherlock Holmes" seems to be following Sir Arthur Conan Doyle into the realm of the psychic. No longer does Scotland Yard, at the all-powerful command of Doyle, call the great detective from a lift of deep research to help in solving all the particularly difficult and interesting murders. Nowadays Commissioner Enright of the New York Police Force calls in Rafael Schermann, famous Polish "psycho-graphologist" to help him solve the enigmatic Elwell case. Verily, truth is stranger than fiction! Thirty odd years ago, every one regarded Sherlock Holmes, the scientific detective, as a type to be found only...
...unusual indeed. I asked him if his liking for prohibition was not because it made life so much more adventuresome; but he assured me that his feeling was based entirely upon observations of the havoc caused by the drinking of hard liquor in small towns of England and Scotland...