Word: scotlanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor-General, who for two years acted as King George's personal representative and Lord High Commissioner to the Assembly of the Church of Scotland (TIME, June 5, 1933), quotes as his best joke what was said by a sturdy churchman in bitter-end objection to the union of the Scottish churches: "It is unconstitutional. It is impractical. It is illogical and absolutely idiotic! But I hae no doot it is God's will...
...writer of a World War history in serial form which patriotic parents still give children in the United Kingdom; Director of Information under Prime Minister David Lloyd George (1917-18); M. P. since 1927 for the Scottish Universities; twice (1933 & 1934) Lord High Commissioner to the Church of Scotland; 32-time novelist and lifelong apologist for War, the meat of many of his romances. Writing weightily upon the great Tolstoy's philosophy of Peace, Jack Buchan roundly postulated: "War, too, has its idealism...
...York Yacht Club, custodian of the America's Cup, but it has a trophy of its own which, for small-boat sailors the world over, matches the glamor of that famed receptacle. The Seawanhaka Cup, put up for international races in 1895, has been won by Canada, Scotland and Norway. Last week, a fine summer's sailing on Long Island Sound reached its climax at Seawanhaka with a three-out-of-five series in which the challenger was Norna IV, Crown Prince Olav of Norway's sleek new six-metre boat, sailed by his friend Magnus Konow...
Born near Geneva, Marat was the son of a poor chemist. He studied medicine in Scotland, became expert in several languages, took up science. Fearless, bitter, he possessed a quick, vivid pen, turned it to account, after the overthrow of the French monarchy, with violent and inflammatory pamphlets. He gradually became powerful as a spokesman for the extreme Left, the "true type," according to Joseph Shearing, "of the low agitator of the Paris gutters." Terribly ugly, 5 ft. tall but with an enormous head, he suffered with eczema so badly that it was commonly believed he had leprosy. Charlotte...
...BOOMERANG CLUE-Agatha Christie-Dodd, Mead ($2). Few constables and no Scotland Yard men mar the course of detecting by young Bobby and his girl Frankie. Romance survives near-murder, drug ring, kidnappers, a motor "accident." Too soon comes a nicely individual ending. THE THREE COFFINS-John Dickson Carr-Harper ($2). Dr. Fell almost makes an error while pursuing an illusionist. There is a new method of murder in a locked room, a bit of dry humor in the plot. MURDER AT HIGH NOON-Paul McGuire-Crime Club ($2). Murder of a newshawk brings out "the perfect crime"; a final...