Word: scotlanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That really must not happen to May,"* was the word at Buckingham Palace last week after certain newspic- tures from Greenock, Scotland, had caught a royal eye. One showed a bottle of champagne exploding all over Lady Shaw-Stewart, dignified spouse of the Lord Lieutenant for Renfrewshire, just as she launched His Majesty's newest cruiser with the words, "I christen thee Galatea...
...Prayer jor the Living the Rev. J. G. ("Tired Tim") Petrie, Headmaster of St. Kentigern's School, Pitgoorlie Bay, Scotland, is the easygoing, outwardly conventional, inwardly puzzled ruler of a domain. The Rev. Charles ("Wearie Willie") Murray, devout, pious, gentle, with definite leanings toward Rome, is constantly baffled by the problems confronting a pedagog in the English public school. While masters worry over problems of faith and dogma, of pedagogy and discipline, of finances and families, the boys concern themselves with cricket, standing, good form, smut and tormenting "Wearie Willie." Young Middleton falls in love with "Tired...
...example of old-style cinemelodrama, Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back is an entertaining Hollywood elaboration, replete with London fogs, funny policemen, disgruntled Scotland Yard inspectors. Good shot: Hassan and Singh rearing their ugly heads behind the sofa on which Lola Fields has fallen into an unwary doze...
...would be expected also to effect a quick turnover in executives. But Field's does not fire executives; it raises them from the ribbon counter to old age. Of such is President McKinlay, a quiet, determined gentleman with a love for traveling, who was born 60 years ago in Scotland, only 40 mi. from the birth place of his predecessor, able James Simpson, who left Field's to solve the troubles of Insulland (TIME, June 13, 1932). And as long as President McKinlay's store sells more goods than any other in the U. S.?Macy's excepted?...
...rising actress, sleeps. Two years after their separation each falls in love with somebody else, both want a divorce to remarry. John goes to a friendly lawyer, a divorce specialist. He discovers Britain has three sets of divorce laws, one for England, one for Ireland, one for Scotland. Under English law their only recourse is for him to fake an act of adultery, then let his wife's lawyer get the evidence, sue him. (If both John and Mary commit adultery, English law would punish them by never giving either a divorce.) Gritting his teeth, John goes through with...