Word: scotlanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...times the population of the British Isles, live in British India and last week they were given an entirely new setup of their provincial governments. The province called "Bombay Presidency" is by itself two-and-a-half times the size of England and five times more populous than Scotland. Thus a change of greatest magnitude was performed last week at New Delhi by the Viceroy & Governor General of India, an able Scottish banker, His Excellency the Most Hon. the Marquess of Linlithgow. Instead of saying presto-chango, the Viceroy caused his weekly Gazette to swell up for the occasion into...
...decree nisi will otherwise become a final divorce. In messages reaching England last week the Duke of Windsor particularized his wedding plans, named a date early in May, expressed strong desire that the bridal car shall be chauffeured by George Laclbrook and guarded by Inspector David Storier of Scotland Yard. These two one-time constant attendants upon Edward and Mrs. Simpson made off to England as soon as they could and last week "were holding their ground. Candidate for honors as ''the Englishman who most dislikes Mrs. Simpson" is the detective who was assigned to escort...
...CASE FOR THREE DETECTIVES-Leo Bruce-Stokes ($2). Three famed detectives solve a seemingly impossible murder but with three different results, and Sergeant Beef, of the local police, triumphs over Scotland Yard...
When a railroad official asked passengers on a train passing through Aberdeen, Scotland if one of them had lost a couple of violins, up jumped Violinist Jascha Heifetz, sputteringly recalled that he had left his Stradivarius and Joseph Guarnerius worth $150,000 in the Dundee station lunchroom. "And did I have the jitters until they arrived by the next train!" cried he afterward...
...CLIMBS-C. A. Tarrant- Lippincott ($2). A mousy little clerk accidentally becomes a gentlemanly crook by night, worries his old landlady, a woman boarder and all of Scotland Yard, while amassing a fortune, without murder, for a "Sacred Cause." THE MOONSTONE AND THE WOMAN IN WHITE-Wilkie Collins-Modern Library ($1.10). Reprint, in readable type, of two detective classics; with an introduction by Alexander Woollcott. The first and probably the best, full-length detective novel, The Moonstone has had a U. S. reputation confined mostly to hearsay...