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...Scottish Chauffeur R. MacBurnie: "If you cannot grant me my liberty, by which I mean my freedom of conscience, then I ask you to sentence me to death so that I may die with a clear conscience. If you are not going to sentence me to death, I should like to catch the 5:20 train." Verdict: unconditional exemption...
...commission in their sale. But who would be tapped, what commission would be paid, how rapidly the first block of equities would be sold, few in Wall Street knew, if any knew at all. Mr. Gifford was as hard to find as a sliced brassie shot on a Scottish moor. In Manhattan for a month before his appointment was announced, he had been seen by partners of J. P. Morgan & Co., few others...
...with Schoolmistress Alice Moore created a national scandal, he coined and widely promoted an epigram on gossips: "When in doubt, mind your own business." Biographer Balch takes 320 pages to seek (vainly) for the clue to Elbert Hubbard's contradictory character. The shrewdest characterization is that of the Scottish comedian, Sir Harry Lauder...
From 1927 to 1935 he was M. P. for the Scottish Universities, living quietly at Oxford and writing still more books in a corner of a railway carriage between Ox ford and London. It was probably his his tory of the reign of George V (The King's Grace) that got him his appointment as Governor General. There was such a furor over the appointment of a commoner that the King made him Baron Tweedsmuir (for his home in Scotland) of Elsfield (for his house in Oxford...
...weather news at all in a spell of such weather as had not been seen in the Isles for 46 years. Hush-hushed was the fact that the British capital was covered with snow, that snowdrifts twelve feet high were piled up on the Dover-Folkestone Road, that the Scottish lochs were frozen solid, that all of Britain shivered. The London Daily Mail gleefully published a cold-wave poem which, it said, had been held up for ten days, finally to be passed with "alterations...