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Curls of steam and greasy smells rose, one morning last week, around a locomotive which waited in London, ready to whisk a trainload of tourists off to Southampton and the Cunarder Aquitania. Pensive, the engineer spat from his cab upon the platform. "D'ye twig wha's aboord?" he said to the fireman, "Mon, I wud sooner drive Mac any day than the King himsel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ramsay Sails | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

...Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fauts and Folly | 12/7/1925 | See Source »

...wha are sae guid yoursel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fauts and Folly | 12/7/1925 | See Source »

...British Isles there are 750,000 golfers-esquires who dig their own graves with their niblicks, Englishmen wha' ha' wi' Wallace bled their shillings on every green, Scots wahighing their short approaches, wahoing the long grass with their mashies, plus-four scorers who shyly admit that the only shot they are sure of is their fourth putt. Even of these, many get about a course with 72-odd clips, but only three play golf as every able man sensibly expects to. Last week, the handicap figures of Great Britain were issued. Three golfers were listed at scratch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: May 11, 1925 | 5/11/1925 | See Source »

...face of such a desecration, small wonder that the Siamese National Anthem is often used at American schoolboy initiations and novices are moved to mirth by "A Wha Ta Na Siam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A WHA TA NA-- | 3/31/1923 | See Source »

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