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...secret is that I walked with Mary Queen of Scots, last night, here in Jedburgh ! Wherever a Scot may be he always has at least one moment in the day when he leans against the nearest object and thinks of Mary Queen of Scots. That's our romantic secret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "Seeing is Believing" | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

Rollin Kirby, ace of Democratic cartoonists, is as fertile as he is facile. A slender little Scot, he sits under the gilded dome of the Pulitzer Building and does his job with dour thoroughness. He learned his line and perhaps some of his satirical sharpness under the late great Artist Whistler. His method is the oldtime one of standardizing the figures he seeks to flay. His corpulent, fat-jowled metaphor for the G. O. P. has became almost as well-known as was the late Thomas Nast's moneybag effigy of Boss Tweed years ago.* In the gallery of Kirby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Potent Pictures | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...were alarmed last week. At first, they could not believe their eyes. And yet, there it was in print, in black & white, squarely before them on their own breakfast table, next to the cream pitcher. "Surely," cried one citizen, "Coolidge will act promptly. This situation cannot go on. Great Scot, this is the beginning of a PANIC. We'll all be bankrupt. Why, I always thought the house of Morgan was founded on rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Morgan's Old Gold | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...wind blew cold over the dunes of the course at Sandwich; the sun was hidden behind rolling clouds. Only a Scot could enjoy golf on a day like this, but Jurado played quietly on. Most of the Americans had turned their scores in. Tommy Armour was out, eliminated on the second day after a hopeless round, but Barnes was in the running, so were Mehlhorn and Sarazen, and as for Hagen, he was leading and looked like a certain winner-Hagen, who had been acting in the movies all winter, who had given his clubs away and decided only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Sandwich | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

Unless Prosecutor Taft succeeds in appealing the case, Killer Remus will go scot-free to dedicate the rest of his life, he says, "to stifling the insult to our statutes known as the National Prohibition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Killer Remus | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

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