Word: scotlanders
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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What the ukulele is to Hawaii, the bagpipes to Scotland, the samisen is to Japan. A three-stringed, long-necked banjo with enormous decorative tuning pegs and a square wooden drum covered with white dogskin parchment, it makes a noise something like a ukulele-bagpipe merger. No Geisha girl dares hold up her elaborately coiffed head unless she is adept on the samisen. More samisens are made and sold than any other musical instrument in Japan, yet the samisen industry has felt the World Depression...
...Miss Emily Mary Dorman. They had been engaged for five years. Ernest, who had always loved sea ways, and had come to know them through years in the mercantile marine service, had just returned from Antarctica with Scott Antarctic Expedition of 1901. The couple went to live in Edinburgh, Scotland, where Mrs. Shackleton knew many important people. Among her friends was the Earl of Rosebery, Queen Victoria's famed Prime Minister (1894-95). Four years after the marriage, Explorer Shackleton turned again toward the South Pole. This time he was commanding officer. When he returned the next year after...
...Under the title The Fishermen's Saint (Scribner's, $1), Dr. Grenfell last month published the address he made when inducted in 1929 as Lord Rector of St. Andrews University, Scotland. In it he happily notes: "Two years ago we opened a large, modern, fireproof hospital, built of reinforced concrete and steel" at St. Anthony, Newfoundland. The other four hospitals he conducts in Labrador and Newfoundland are, like the one at Battle Harbor, built of wood...
Londoners stood in the streets cheering the christening, but Scotsmen were roiled. Ten-week-old Margaret Rose, second daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York, was the first child in line for the throne to be born in Scotland for more than 300 years (TIME, Sept. 1). Her mother is the daughter of a Scotch peer, her first name is a royal Scots name, Caledonians claim her as their Princess. They were incensed that the christening had not taken place on Scotch soil...
Married. Constance Speer, of Manhattan, daughter of Evangelist Robert Elliott Speer, sister of President Elliott Speer of the Northfield Schools (see p. 26); and Dr. Robert F. Barbour of Edinburgh, Scotland; in Lakeville, Conn...