Word: scotlanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taking no chances, Scotland Yard operatives of great brawn courteously and quietly pressed the veterans back, saw to it that His Majesty's pace was accelerated until he was clear of his well-wishers. Sudden rain, after the tea was half over, sent the King scurrying to the Palace for cover. At this the 5,000 Canadians, not knowing that English folk in similar circumstances usually take shelter under trees, dashed pell-mell after him into Buckingham where one astounded Palace flunky in scarlet & gold was heard to say to another, "It's like the bloody Revolution!" When...
Engaged. Wyndham Baldwin, 32, younger son of British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin; and Elspeth Tomes, 34, of New York City and Lossiemouth, Scotland; in London...
...herb shop in Netting Hill at which he tended counter in a wing collar and a long frock coat. A violent opponent of capital punishment, he had written a series of abusive letters to Home Secretary Sir John Simon. At 9 o'clock that morning a pair of Scotland Yard detectives dropped around to talk to Herbalist McMahon, but he had already left the house...
...which pedestrians theoretically have the right-of-way to cross (TIME, Nov. 26, 1934), but Mr. Hore-Belisha is capitalizing on the publicity his beacons won to carry out vital reforms. Shocking is the fact that two-thirds of Britain's boasted "Great North Road" from London to Scotland is too narrow for two lanes of traffic. Hundreds of millions must be spent, but for a starter some $25,000,000 is to put 20,000 road workmen into jobs by next autumn...
...selling drugs. Ordino was in cahoots with Lady Judith and Sir Gregory, whose yacht-cruises were not innocent pleasure trips but drug-buying expeditions to the Orient. This nefarious trade paid the three partners so well that they were thinking of retiring after a few more hauls. Then Scotland Yard began to close in on them. But the criminals might have escaped the Law had not that evil-eyed individual in a mackintosh taken a blasphemous fancy to Lady Judith. She, not being the tart he took her for, recoiled in disgust. At that he went and ratted...