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...suiting," but most of them were in a mood to greet indulgently the smallish, sharp-nosed, pucker-lipped Scot. Due to land at Quebec on Oct. 24 from the Empress of Britain, Lord & Lady Tweedsmuir were the prey of seafaring autograph hunters this week. Bandied merrily were the Scottish jokes which the brilliant historian, novelist and Governor-General is so adept at working in at a captain's dinner...
...anecdotes are often capped by His Excellency with the one about the Scottish soldier from the village of Rothie-murchus who was asked where he was wounded during General Sir Stanley Maude's campaign in Irak. "I was wounded," he replied, "about a mile on the Rothiemurchus side of Baghdad...
...years acted as King George's personal representative and Lord High Commissioner to the Assembly of the Church of Scotland (TIME, June 5, 1933), quotes as his best joke what was said by a sturdy churchman in bitter-end objection to the union of the Scottish churches: "It is unconstitutional. It is impractical. It is illogical and absolutely idiotic! But I hae no doot it is God's will...
...whose legal status is "the Person of the King in Canada," then they want to get something for their money. Admirers of the first Baron Tweedsmuir, while generous in their tributes to John Buchan's intellectual gifts, single out his extreme flair for effective flattery, conveyed with canny Scottish tact and disarming Scottish directness, as the mainspring of his jack-in-the-box bounce to Viceroyalty...
...defeated him and against those in his own party who regard him as a discredited liability. Last week came a golden opportunity to flay the former, assert his titular party leadership to the latter when Young Republicans from eleven Western States met 1,200 strong at the Scottish Rite Temple in Oakland, Calif. It was the 31st President's first strictly political speech since he left Washington. It was also the first formal forensic broadside of the Republican Presidential campaign. And Herbert Hoover rose...