Word: scotlanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King is resolved to marry Mrs. Simpson. "Everyone knows more than we do," replied the Duchess of York, "we know nothing. Nothing!" Her Royal Highness followed this with a brittle laugh.* To Edinburgh this week traveled the Duke of York to be installed as Grand Master Mason of Scotland...
...first time, we find slightly gross incidents, evidently too perturbing for the delicate tastes of former Victorian editors. New light is shed on Boswell's simple, superstitious nature, and Johnson gives us more logic and heavy wit. There is, perhaps, no better account of life in Scotland around...
...Citizens of Aberdeen, embittered because King Edward, instead of opening their new hospital, met Mrs. Simpson at their railway station on her visit to Scotland (TIME, Oct. 5), chalked Aberdeen streets with the John Knoxian exhortation: "Down with the American Harlot...
...scornful speech which inspired Shaw in writing Arms and the Man, organized the Scottish Labour Party, built up close friendships with William Morris, Joseph Conrad, Hudson and Parnell. He disguised himself as a doctor, traveled to Morocco in 1897 in search of a forbidden city, was imprisoned, returned to Scotland to rebuild his estate, covered South America buying horses and cattle during the War, helped found the Scottish Nationalist Party at the age of 76. With all this he wrote some 30 books, publishing the first when he was 43. He had returned to Buenos Aires to see an edition...
Inhibited by the need for keeping professional secrets from criminals, officers of the law usually write books that have all the bad features of detective stories and none of their ingenuity. By no means so pompous in his professional recollections as Sir Basil Thomson, onetime chief of Scotland Yard (The Story of Scotland Yard), Melvin Horace Purvis, onetime head of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, nevertheless falls into the literary ambush that has trapped so many of his predecessors, composing an account that contains two parts of philosophizing on crime to every one part of concrete...