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Although Sir William spent the last eleven years at the University of Chicago on professorship to work on the Dictionary, returning to England only for the summers, most of the spadework was done by his colleague. Chicago Professor James Root Hulburt and small, Scottish George Watson, longtime subordinate on the Oxford Dictionary who followed Craigie to Chicago in 1926. Last week with the Dictionary well under way, Sir William had returned to his home at Watlington, England, where he will probably stay to work on a new Dictionary of Scottish Tongues...
...returned to Atlanta to become the South's first specialist in that branch of medicine. Self-reliant Dr. Hoke made his own steel braces on his own blacksmith's anvil. With an income of his own, he was free to devote much of his time to organizing Scottish Rite crippled children's homes...
...London Bank Officers Guild and the Scottish Bankers Association jointly mobilized to get Justice for one W. E.Notman, a clerk dismissed by the Glasgow office of the Commercial Bank of Scotland. This bank, as many English banks used to do, operates on the theory that if a low-paid employe marries, the needs of his wife & children may sooner or later tempt him to pilfer money from the bank. Eleven years ago, when Clerk Notman was first employed, he was told that he could not marry until his salary had reached ?200 per year ($1,000). Two years...
That night Alf Landon's special train took him a few miles south to New Castle, where he dined in the Scottish Rite Cathedral with 2,000 Republicans, where he spent the night at the home of his old friend DeGrimm G. Renfro. Sunday morning he was back in West Middlesex to go to church with his uncle William T. Mossman, pressagent of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., in the old red brick Methodist Church where his grandfather, the Rev. William H. Mossman, once was pastor. The Rev. Henry G. Shilling (a registered Democrat who is going to vote...
Bastard son of an Irish cavalry officer and the young Scottish wife of a depraved Spanish diplomat (Claude Rains), Anthony spends his boyhood in a Leghorn convent. At 10 he is apprenticed to and given his last name by the Scottish merchant who by a happy chance, though Anthony never finds out, is his maternal grandfather. He marries the cook's daughter (Olivia de Havilland), leaves her to collect a debt in Cuba, goes to Africa to make a fortune in the slave trade, returns to Leghorn to find his Angela gone, his grandfather dead and the family housekeeper...