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...prefer a safe four to a perilous three. But Golfer Dawson was troubled less last week by fours than by fives, sixes, and once a seven. Nevertheless during the last nine of the semi-finals he found himself at the 16th three up and three to go against Scot Smith. Then, without losing his cheery tight-lipped smile, he proceeded to lose the next three holes and the extra...
...House of Commons an attempt to pull Sir John's leg was made by another, more humorous, Scot, Austin Hopkinson, M. P. "Will not the Right Honorable Gentleman," he suggested, "take it upon himself to order that all third class eggs shall be rubber stamped with the Scottish national motto: Nemo me impune lacessit...
...quart, even a sickening gallon of what Farinacci called his "golden nectar of nausea." As Secretary General of the Fascist Party he wielded Ku-Klux powers of life and death. His last notorious, outrageous exploit was to warp the very fibre of Italian Justice and get off virtually scot free the Fascist murderers of the multimillionaire Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti (TIME, April 5, 1926). Leading U. S. correspondents have since revealed that at the time they and the Italian press were compelled to suppress material details of the trial? especially all indications that Signor Mus solini might himself have ordered...
While citizens wondered whether Justice Bailey was a discriminating jurist or a quibbling dolt, and whether U. S. Senators are efficient investigators or clumsy persecutors, Col. Stewart packed out homewards to Chicago, scot-free at last of the Oil Scandals unless the Senate gets the Bailey theory of quorums overridden in the U. S. Supreme Court...
Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh was observed to treat a certain Correspondent Carlisle MacDonald with less coldness than anyone else who covered him in Paris. Therefore Manhattan's Times sent suave Scot MacDonald from France to the U. S. on the same warboat that carried the Colonel home. Last week Mr. MacDonald, long since back in Paris, was strolling down the Rue de la Paix when the biggest French story of the week broke before his eyes...