Word: scotlanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scotland Yard last fortnight announced that, with such a thief at large, extra precautions were being taken to guard the treasures of Buckingham Palace. Scotland Yard added the following: the logical, probable market for the lady's sale would be the U. S.; "There are plenty of American millionaires who would pay $50,000 for a picture they knew to be worth far more-and ask no questions...
...nightly are tugged municipal scows bearing tons & tons of New York City's garbage. Twenty miles south of Scotland Light they dump their burdens into the dark sea, return. Barge E of the city's Sanitation Commission garbage fleet last week completed her usual run, lay, supposedly empty, at her berth almost under Brooklyn Bridge. At 3 a. m. about 100 men appeared there with three big trucks, swarmed over...
Elizabeth, Duchess of York, who was Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon,* third and youngest daughter of the Earl & Countess of Strathmore and Kingshorne, lay in turreted Glamis castle last week, where according to tradition and Shakespeare, MacBeth did murder Duncan to become King of Scotland. All Britain held its breath. Proud, loyal Scots piled mountainous bonfires on Hunter's hill and neighboring heights which rise above the castle, made ready to send the news blazing over the mountain tops. Not in generations has a potential heir to the throne been born north of the Tweed. The British postoffice, guardian of Britain...
London and Winnipeg are separated by twelve days travel. But a straight line drawn from North Scotland to Winnipeg passes across the middle of Greenland, through the Faroe Islands and Iceland- nowhere over more than 300 mi. of water. That is why a party of scientists and airmen (of only 23 years average age) sailed last week from England for the Faroe Islands in Sir Ernest Shackleton's historic ship Quest. As the British arctic air route expedition, commanded by H. G. Watkins, the group will remain until autumn of 1931, amassing weather data, exploring...
...single case. He, 48 last week, born at Dunedin, N. Z., is now plastic surgeon to three London hospitals and to the Royal Air Force. U. S. dentists know him as an honorary member of their national association. Sportsmen recall him. as playing golf for England against Scotland in 1908, 1925, 1926, as winning St. George's Grand Challenge...