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Canadian Army women may skirl bagpipes-but not in kilts that show the knees. In Ottawa. National Defense Headquarters ruled that man-size kilts on a woman are a breach of Scottish tradition...
Readers that year were flocking to buy a bucolic novel about the Scottish village of Drumtochty by Ian Maclaren and a nostalgic romance of Paris' Latin Quarter by a British illustrator named George du Maurier. Beside the Bonnie Briar Bush and Trilby became the first "bestsellers" -a new word in the language...
...private Ross realm embraces a minuscule archipelago (a score or more coral islets), lying in the vastness of the Indian Ocean midway between Australia and Ceylon. The Cocos Islands have belonged to the Ross dynasty ever since John Clunies-Ross I, Scottish skipper of an East Indiaman, settled there with his family in 1827. The Rosses are absolute rulers of their coconut-growing Malay subjects. By royal fiat the Cocos Islands positively admit no immigrants or ever re-admit emigrants...
Your story of the "Too-Warm Dinosaur" was most illuminating. An old lady who lived near my boyhood home used to tell me that the greatness of the Scottish race was attributable to "patience, pairseverance, and lots of parritch." Now I realize that she neglected to tell me how effective was the local refrigeration of the kilt...
Chlanna nan con, thigibh a so's gheibh sibh feoil!* Not since 1745 has this most ferocious of Scottish battle cries sent a chill through England's Border region. But last week the horrors of a porridge famine threatened Scotland. The British War Office commandeered all available oatmeal stocks to feed liberated Europe. Said the London Daily Mail with massive understatement: "Protests are likely...