Word: scottishly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scottish links patriarchs plodded wide-eyed after young Roland Mackenzie of Washington, D. C., who was hitting terrific drives. They hemmed and mumbled among themselves about the firmness and precision of square shouldered young Watts Gunn of Atlanta, Ga, They despaired silently when brilliant Roger Wethered of England had an off morning and lost to the equally brilliant but less reliable Robert Scott Jr. of Glasgow. Wethered was one of the Isles' best hopes against the Americans. And Sir Ernest Holderness was another. Sir Ernest lost to another untried youngster, Robert Peattie, whose father is postmaster of Perth. That really...
...first group which the Club will give contains in it a series of four folk songs, which are of particular interest since they have been chosen as typical of the folk music of the various countries which they represent. In one of them, "Turn Ye to Me," a Scottish song, E. B. Nichols '26, will be the tenor soloist...
...particularly noteworthy. These hymns are adaptations of old Hindu music, by the English composer Holst. The solo in one of them, the Hymn to Manas, will be sung by W. B. Wood 2G.B. Another group of interest is a collection of four folk songs, in one of which, a Scottish song called "Turn Ye to Me," E. B. Nichols '26 will sing the tenor solo...
...plans for marrying her to Don Carlos, son of morose Philip of Spain, or to the Archduke of Austria, or into the royal family of France. Scotland was the backdoor to England. Queen Elizabeth was determined Mary should make no "mighty marriage," was fertile in expedients, threats, cajolery. Her Scottish Protestant counselors urged her to a decision as to Mary's marriage: "Remember how earnestly she is sought otherwyse; you see the lustiness of her boddie, you know what these thynges require . . . Loss of her time is our destruction." Elizabeth would only offer vague suggestions as to the English succession...
Darnley was with her when their baby (James VI) was born; thenceforth he was politically a cypher. Scottish coins bearing their joint effigy were recalled. Feigning reconciliation she tempted him from the security of his father's castle and a crowd of his own retainers. The poor fool was strangled at Kirk-o'-Field by Rizzio's murderers, whom he had betrayed and Mary had pardoned...