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...acre estate of Charles Arthur Moore at Round Hill, Conn.. 8,000 U. S. Scots last week assembled for the largest festival of its kind outside Scot-land-the annual Cowal Games of the United States. A day-long orgy of mutton-pie eating, sword-dancing, and caber-tossing, the Cowal Games ended with a parade of 100 bagpipers and drummers who marched over the rolling hills tooting the air of The Seventy-Ninth Farewell to Gibraltar. Prize for piping-a silver cup and $150-went to the Lovat Band whose bald-headed leader, Augus Fraser, has entered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cowal Games | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

...less hardy Scot, the spectacle of 8,000 fellow clansmen running loose on his country estate might have seemed alarming. Charles Arthur Moore, whose 6 ft. 3 in. and 250 Ib. made him easily the most impressive Scot at his extraordinary festival, was pleased by his Cowal Games last week until he noticed a group of clansmen paddling about in his stocked lake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cowal Games | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

Died? Evelyn Butler, circa 60, professor of English at Butler University (Indianapolis), onetime (1923-30) Dean of Women, daughter of the University's onetime President Scot Butler, granddaughter of Benefactor Ovid Butler, for whom the University was named: after long illness; in Indianapolis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 16, 1934 | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 16, 1934 | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

...Elmsdale, Nova Scotia, Scot Willis McPhee left his house bright & early one morning bent on swapping his rusty 40.40 rifle for what he could get. Dark & late that night Scot Willis McPhee returned with a Mauser rifle, an eight-day clock, a pair of rubber boots, a yellow cat, a goat great with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 16, 1934 | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

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