Word: glasgow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spies, even poked through the ventilating system and set a patrol on the roof. At 2 p.m. workmen and staff employes were sent home, and soon afterward certain brawny nobles staged a regular Rugger scrum for the tiny Peers Gallery. One peer was knocked down, although the Earl of Glasgow had cautioned beforehand: "I do hope your Lordships will manage to conduct yourselves with decorum!" Last measure introduced before the session was scheduled to become secret was The Gas and Steam Vehicles Excise Bill. Too decorous to raise the famed old cry of "I spy!" Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain rose...
...property (homes sec Princeton Survey) confiscated by quadrupled taxation. Some of Thomson's articles on his program N.Y. Her-Trib Dec. 21 '36, Feb. 20 '30 N.Y. WLD Telg'm July 10 '39 editl pp Amer Federalist Mch 1027--Cleveland Leader called his Nature poems of boyhood "perfect": Glasgow Her and Edinburgh Scotsmen: "best America has ever produced." Re his war poems & fiction he was called "the Kipling of the World war and the China Coast" by Montreal Star May 17 1030 p 27: Nat'l mag. Boston Nov t0 15 Metrop magaz N.Y. A. B. Moore...
When he was a little boy in Glasgow 30 years ago William Primrose loved to saw away at an old viola that was around the house. His father, who was himself a disappointed viola player, strongly objected, set little William to practicing the violin instead. But William never forgot the charms of the forbidden viola. Years later, in Brussels, when his teacher, the late great violinist and tosspot Eugene YsaŸe, told William he had special aptitude for the viola, he switched to it for life. In 1937, when NBC officials were recruiting their new NBC Symphony, they heard...
...three Representatives interested in Mr. Anderson's story, one was an Isolationist. Ammunition for House debate in coming weeks was what they furnished. Embarrassment to the Donaldson Atlantic Line (owner of the Athenia) was what they caused. Said Donaldson in Glasgow: "Tommyrot and absolute nonsense...
...policies, contraceptive control of the German population, making the world safe for Big Business. Letitia Fairfield, sister of Novelist Rebecca West: "The Catholic press will cut no ice morally so long as they make persecutions of the church the test of right and wrong in international affairs." Author George Glasgow: "Stemming atheistic bolshevism and bringing Europe back to Almighty God will not be achieved by this...