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Vast Asia's southernmost tip is the Sultanate of Johore. Last week amid dazzling pomp a well-preserved Scotswoman of 41 was crowned Sultana of Johore. Highly pleased seemed her new husband, H. H. Sir Ibrahim, Sultan of Johore, 58, an earnest ruler who lists among his recreations "rubber planting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JOHORE: Scottish Sultana | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

...pedagog herself, Miss Charlotte obtained the services of Miss Christine Weyman, an able, experienced Scotswoman who is still Foxcroft's academic headmistress. Miss Charlotte's role was that of organizer, executive and setter of the school's atmosphere, director of its purpose. She put her girls into corduroy uniforms?dark green coats, tan skirts, white shirtwaists. In the evening Fox croft girls wear white crepe de chine, all alike, no chance for rich little girls to show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Foxcroft's Accolade | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...came about in the natural course of events that he was elected to Congress, and served unostentatiously for nearly 20 years. For 20 years he lived mostly in Washington, with his wife (a Scotswoman**) and Laura, his daughter. In recent years Laura has been his secretary. She is known as a very clever woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Myth | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

...Story. On board a liner bound for San Francisco from London, in 1851, were 50 miscellaneous orphans in charge of Miss Charlotte Smith, a young English spinster. The ship also contained one O'Malley, inebriate doctor, a Scotswoman named Jean, some scoundrelly sailors and many others who would doubtless have been relevant to this account had not God broken that ship in half, tipping all its wretched occupants into an obscure corner of the Pacific Ocean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marooned | 2/9/1925 | See Source »

...jist like teeth," said a Scotswoman, commenting on men in general. " They are ill to get. When ye get them they are a constant source of vexation, and when ye lose them, what a gap they leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Unrecorded by Hansard* | 9/3/1923 | See Source »

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