... Speaking in tongues POLYGLO’(IES (328 °z_‘ll':!s! Secker & w..fiu FOURTH time lucky? First published in 1925, again in 1947, then once more in a “revised definitive edition” in 1970, William Gerhardie’s The Polyglots is being sent out into the world one ...

... speak out The hew Government-backed En%ineerihg Council are aiming to block the drain of Britain's best engineers into better-paid management jobs. In their first major policy statement, issued yesterday, the council say: “Some first-class engineers, ...

... Straight speaking THE cast of the -Scottish Theatre Company’s Edinburgh Festival rmdwt.hn. The Wal: lace, he? Mthe scglm “readpt yester-director - Tom Flemul}i are “nervous ‘and awful, like the first day at school.” - McCue, who physdmm, the herald in ...

... Speaking frankly olm. Hawick, February 21, 1988 Sir.—Sonwnn'fllh(to argue with me the nnchflwdfllllndh-!p Speaking of blm de‘WP' g France and niece the and the Duke of Guise L L i e him to Holyrood. “What have you to do,” said she, “with my marriage?” “If ...

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... Euphemuistically speaking indecency” — there’s something quintessentially Scottish about the concept of shamelessness, isn’t there? You must have seen advertisments recently in which hoteliers offer to cater “respectfully” for the bereaved. I take this ...

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... ‘Speak to them’ 10a Royal Terrace, i Rothesay, : Isle of Bute, March 22, 1983 -Sir, — 1 thank Mr Thomas Gillan for drawing my attention to “minor problems.” The British people today, however, are confronted by a more pressing problem, viz an accommaodation ...

... Relatively speaking PHILIP SNOW: sn:’« and Brother: A Portrait C. P Snow (206 pp. £8.95. Macmillan) YOU do not have to read far in C. P. Snow's 11-volume fictional sequence — his famous Strangers and Brothers series — to feel that “power”, “success” and ...

... Speaking up POLITICAL oratory, the pundits lament nowadays, is in decline; but this seems always to have been the case. The Prime Minister, despite her talents, reputedly needs a team of speech writers, while the Leader of the Opposition is said to talk ...

... People speaking Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, has secured an impressive victory in his country’s General Election. When all results are declared he could win 400 of the 508 Parliamentary seats, suggesting an 11 per cent swing to his Congress ...

... Plain speaking YESTERDAY'S meeting of Edinburgh District housing committee was jolted out of its torpor by the surfacing of a strange rh:ase in an official report. It referred to “diseconomies of scale.” What did this mean? The housing director, Mr Mel ...