Word: scotlanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Anderson, Lord Privy Seal and Minister in charge of civilian defense, announced that plans for decentralizing the Government immediately on the outbreak of a war have been made. England, Scotland and Wales will be divided into twelve districts, the civil and military affairs of each to be administered by an autonomous "dictator" during wartime...
FATAL DESCENT-John Rhode & Carter Dickson-Dodd, Mead ($2). A meticulous Scotland Yard inspector and a theorizing police surgeon solve the shooting of a London publisher in his private elevator. Humorous, with an ingenious solution of the hermetically-sealed-room problem...
EVEN DOCTORS DIE-Lindsay Anson-Crime Club ($2). Reporter Peter Allen sticks his neck out when he tries to solve the murders of two famed British doctors and a nurse. Provocative plot, mixing a hard-boiled American manner with stiffish Scotland Yard technique...
...days of William Wallace, sometimes referred to him as Alexander Skirmisher, the forms scrimmage and skirmish illustrating the R-metathesis common in English and other Germanic languages. That Mr. Scrymgeour knows how to pronounce his name, or that ancestors of both of us were skirmishers and huntsmen in Scotland "afore the Saxons landed," I do not doubt; but a Scot who supposes that these forbears bore our present, or any other, established surnames must have a head rather less than hard...
...reported that Scotland Yard officials traced a wad of English banknotes found on one of the prisoners to a German bank. This tended to confirm the suspicions of many Britons that the Nazis were not above backing the terrorist activities of the I. R. A., as German guns and ammunition backed the Irish revolutionaries in the Easter Rebellion...