Word: scotlanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...excuse of another for about eight months of the year, spending four tied down to an office desk. Of course, those four months meant pretty hard routine work. But a trip to Italy on the excuse of buying Italian books, to Germany for Incunabula, or merely around England and Scotland in quest of English works were a refreshing interlude...
Miss Wendel's dead brother John Gottlieb Wendel married one Mary Ellen Devine in New York City in 1876, that he was the offspring of the union, brought up by some Morrises in Dundee, Scotland...
...From Scotland and the U. S. came "evidence" and many witnesses in Claimant Morris's behalf. A nurse and a taxicab executive testified that the late John Wendel, supposedly a bachelor, had confessed to them his secret marriage and the existence of a son. Piece de resistance of the Morris claim was a bust of John Wendel executed in bronze by one Julian Bowes. Sculptor Bowes said that the science of dynamic symmetry had enabled him to reconstruct a perfect three-dimensional likeness of his subject from two old photographs. To the vast amusement of the audience and embarrassment...
...Born 44 years ago at Tremadoc, Wales of a good but not famed family with mixed Irish, Hebridean, Spanish and Norse blood, Thomas Edward Lawrence was one of five sons. His childhood was spent in Scotland, the Isle of Man, Jersey, France. Hampshire. His family moved to Oxford and he went to school there. At 13 he began a series of solo bicycle tours, made a large collection of brass-rubbings from old monuments in country churches. At 16 he broke a leg wrestling with another boy at school. He said nothing about it, rode home...
...throughout the British Empire with the announced goal of raising and pegging prices 25% above present levels. Chairman of E. F. Co-Op. is that most composite Empire peer, Trevor Grant of Grant, Baron Strathspey, who was born in New Zealand, is a Baronet of Nova Scotia, lives in Scotland...