Word: scotlanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happens that my brother* has always had a great fondness for raw eggs, and when he was a youngster my mother was more than once startled by discovering that a box apparently full of eggs was really half empty! But it would undoubtedly be infra-dig for Scotland Yard or the Surete Generale even to entertain such a simple explanation! By the way, TIME in its article on L'Affaire d'Espionnage, March 26. repeats another old canard by saying that my father "Theodore Switz [was] a naturalized Russian." Actually my father was born in Madison...
...Scotland was struggling to preserve its Presbyterianism, establish free trade with the English colonies, seat her peers in the House of Lords. But in a lonely castle on Maxwelton's hillside the year's real problem was a pretty, dark-eyed girl who fancied she loved a rakish soldier. The girl was Annie Laurie. The soldier, one Willie Douglas of Fingland, wrote verses to her, offered to lay himself "doon an' dee." Annie Laurie's parents locked her in her stone-walled bedroom until she stopped her mooning, sadly consented to marry respectable Alexander Fergusson...
...score years of personal research," which includes a knowledge of the latest diggings among Shakespeare's bones. Perhaps Anne Hathaway really was the beautiful and understanding wife Author de Chambrun portrays: perhaps Shakespeare really was mixed up in Papist alarums and Essex' plot; perhaps he went to Scotland and had a fine clack with King James. But Author de Chambrun, though she is a bright lady and writes a conscientious romance, has not the vivifying touch. Readers will get more of an inkling about Shakespeare the man in reading three of his sonnets than by attending 30 such...
Finally the Chancellor of the Exchequer, fit and smiling after a salmon fishing holiday in Scotland (see cut), entered the House to deliver the speech for which all were breathlessly waiting. Because he was bringing the best news Britain has heard since 1931, Neville Chamberlain blew himself to a new brief case of gleaming yellow pigskin to carry the precious budget of 1934. By tradition Britain's budget is always supposed to be contained in a red morocco box on the Speaker's table. Chancellor Chamberlain slipped his few typewritten pages from brief case to the budget...
...Hole Eggs Sirs: Now, sir, will you have your mysteries-with eggs or without them? That Switz spying affair seems to be hard enough for those French gendarmes to unravel, but now-well, let us see what TIME has brought. ". . . Scotland Yard carefully examined the Chelsea, London flat in which the Switzes lived for many months. There they found a new touch of mystery-dozens & dozens of eggshells, carefully blown, with a neat hole in end of each." (TIME, April 2, p. 16.) Now there is a mystery that will make those French Johnnies sit back, take their hats...