Word: scotlanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...birds. In winter, when the island is inaccessible, the St. Kildans maintained communication with the outside world by means of "sea messages." Letters placed in strong wooden boxes were thrown from the sheer cliffs. The prevailing westerly winds generally carried these to the Hebrides or the mainland of Scotland in one week. For hundreds of years St. Kilda has belonged to the MacLeods, who, living on the nearly as rigorous Isle of Skye, have seen nothing untoward in life on St. Kilda (Norman Magnus, present MacLeod of MacLeod, is hale and hearty at 91). The Marquess of Ailsa* bought...
...news was known Caledonians were clamoring that the baby be named Margaret, a name borne by many of Scotland's queens. Their request will probably be acceded to. Margaret is not only a royal Scots name, it is a family name with the Bowes-Lyon. Princess Elizabeth, the Duchess's first child was christened Elizabeth Alexandra Mary in honor of Queen Mary, the other name suggested by reporters last week...
...Town Council of the Royal Borough of Forfar assembled before a table studded with ale bottles to pass suitable resolutions, drink a health to the "first royal birth in Scotland for more than three centuries."* They decided that plebeian ale did not befit the occasion, spent the town's money for four bottles of Scotch whiskey which were instantly consumed...
...depressed stockmarket keep Americans at home, fires blazed high in feudal halls rented for the season. Once more beaters in a semicircle drove toward the blinds; once more, amid smells of gunpowder and bog myrtle, the birds rose and were shot at. Most sportsmen who go to Scotland after Aug. 12 and before the end of September, go because they know, or want to learn, the rules of a peculiar, a social kind of shooting. No lone hunter with dog and gun can stroll into the brush. The grouse industry is so well organized that to shoot one must rent...
Last week a tip along England's grapevine telegraph sent a cable hurrying to Manhattan. New York police wired Boston port officials. Scotland Yard had heard that the Lady of Minto had been, was being, or would be, smuggled into the U. S. via Boston...