Word: tweeds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Scots and their Sassenach cousins there is a friendlier feeling. The English regard the Scots with mixed admiration as a nation of sturdy but unconsciously humorous characters; the Scots view the English with more or less kindly contempt. Scottish Author Macdonell, at home on both sides of the Tweed, has written the kind of hilarious, good-natured (i.e. flattering) satire on England which Englishmen love. U. S. readers may enjoy it too, unless they have Irish blood in them, in which case they may be annoyed at the way Author Macdonell pulls his punches...
...instalment which cast a bloody light on certain early Mormon doings. In filming Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's thriller, Fox was evidently so concerned about injuring Mormon feelings that an entirely new and different story is told. Only the old rooms in Baker Street, the pipe, tweed cap and violin of sagacious Sherlock Holmes remain unaltered. New film Holmes is Reginald Owen, a twangy-voiced high comedian who gave theatregoers much pleasure in The Play's the Thing and Petticoat Influence...
...stroke of good luck for the producers, several measures like those instituted by President Hammond have already been effected by President Roosevelt. The cinema omits several episodes dealing with such abstruse matters as gold and banking included in the book which a British brigadier general named Thomas F. Tweed wrote anonymously last February (TIME, Feb. 13). Instead of showing the President returned to normal and ready to repudiate his good deeds at the end, the picture makes him a durably heroic if somewhat implausible personage, handling the affairs of nations as though they were rabbits in a hat. Instead...
Slowly the drama developed. The Prisoner was Norman Baillie-Stewart, 24, a lieutenant in the aristocratic Seaforth Highlanders, a regiment still known north of the Tweed as the Ross-shire Buffs, whose Colonel-in-Chief is Edward of Wales (see cut). As a cadet at Sandhurst Lieut. Baillie-Stewart became still more intimate with the Royal Family by serving as orderly to Prince Henry, third son of George V. The charge against him was selling military secrets to a foreign power. Last week his court martial commenced...
...away in the cedar chest against the coming of a new campaign. Great grandmother's ear rings have gone back into mother's jewelry box. In one short month the sound and fury have dropped below a far horizon. And the girls have drifted off to Bermuda in new tweed suits, or to Florida in picture hats. Now this, to the Vagabond, is altogether fitting. Not the vanishing of the pomp of little circumstance, but the drifting off of the girls. They have gone up into the collar like good Clydesdales and true and they should have rest from labor...