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...ancient people, started somewhere near the banks of the Rhine, spread loosely through Europe, crossed the Pyrenees into Spain, and reached Ireland and England only a few years before the Roman invasion of 55-A. D. They have a basic language. Today linguists agree that the Welsh, Irish, Scottish and Breton languages are related to the Celtic. The Basques, however, a mountainous folk, were little influenced by the Celtic invasion of Spain in the 6th Century B. C., have today a completely unrelated language...
...excitement newshawks suddenly remembered the Benedictine monastery at Fort Augustus, at the southern and deepest end of the lake. There they found jovial, garrulous 83-year-old the Right Rev. Sir David Hunter Blair, Bart. Sir David is more than a British baronet. He is a onetime captain of Scottish militia, an antiquarian, author of five books of memoirs, a Benedictine monk and titular Abbot of Dunfermline. Abbot Sir David has been an Abbot Emeritus of Fort Augustus since 1917, but he has lived on Loch Ness for 50 years, still spends most of his time at the monastery...
Last week, for a change, Scotland provided British music halls with a joke on itself. In the House of Commons, Scottish M. P.'s were discussing a Spirits Bill for Scotland. Before them came an expert on Scottish peculiarities who revealed that, by mixing milk with cheap Eau de Cologne, a potent potion can be made for next to nothing. Added the expert: "This drink is a common one in Scotland. . . . Four gallons would do the trick on a whole football crowd." The Scottish M. P.'s, blushing for the fair name of Scotch whiskey, indignantly recommended that...
...Scot was again in the chairman's seat of what looked like a full-size International Conference of the sort he loved so well as British Prime Minister. Once more, and perhaps for the last time, the imposing Locarno Room of the Foreign Office echoed to his noble Scottish burr. Mr. MacDonald today holds the British Cabinet sinecure of Lord President of the Council at $10,000 yearly, is slated to be raised to the peerage soon and retire on a pension of $10,000. Severe eye trouble caused him to strain with visible pain last week...
...powerful contender for succeeding contracts appeared at once in the person of suave, socialite John Russell Pope of Manhattan and Newport. From the drawing boards of conservative Architect Pope have already come the Scottish Rite Temple on 16th Street and the new Archives Building. Easily he persuaded elderly Mr. Mellon that he would be the ideal architect for the proposed Mellon Gallery (TIME...