APRIL FOOL

... APRIL FOOL April Fool Day is not so popular as it used to be. At one time, however, all sorts of silly jokes were played upon small boys. One that re-appeared every year consisted of sending * k° y bookshop to buy “The Life and Adventures of Eve’s Mother ...

Published: Saturday 31 March 1934
Newspaper: Falkirk Herald
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 71 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

APRIL FooL

... APRIL FooL. The April fish, the poisaonsd'Avril, is the ' l French term for what we call an April fool. The custom of sending people on fool's errands on April Ist is probably due to the change of the calendar in France in 1564; but there • Hindu ...

Published: Friday 08 July 1910
Newspaper: Musselburgh News
County: East Lothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 76 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

April Fool

... April Fool PINCH, pinch. It was, after all, April Fool’s Day. I hope the article headlined Red Alert was an April Fool’s Day teaser although the comment “Congestion is a major headache in the streets of Edinburgh” is very true and is a matter that mustrze ...

Published: Wednesday 06 April 1994
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 119 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

April fool!

... April fool! —by Frank McGinty A FEW DAYS before last April Fool's Day, 1 enquired of my youngest, Joanna, at breakfast, whether she'd any good tricks lined up to play on her friends on April 1. Certainly not, she replied. she was too old for that nonsense ...

Published: Monday 01 April 1991
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 426 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

APRIL FOOL

... APRIL FOOL For the month of April we admit to being just a little foolish, tf you stay with us three days or more dinner, bed and breakfast, will only cost £12.00 + VAT (daity per person) Only a fool would attempt to use all the amenities, golf at Rosemount ...

Published: Thursday 26 March 1981
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 105 | Page: 24 | Tags: none

APRIL FOOL

... APRIL FOOL For the month of April we admit to being just a little foolish. If you stay with us throe days or more dinner, bed and breaKtast. will only cost £12.00 + VAT (daily per person). Only a fool would attempt to use all the amenities, golf at Rosemounl ...

Published: Saturday 28 March 1981
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 211 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

April Fool

... April Fool April I. or All Fools* Day. not a purely British custom, having been celebrated in India from time immemorial by a festival known as the Holi. It is celebrated much the same in this country, with the exception that the voung Hindus are addicted ...

Published: Saturday 20 January 1934
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 196 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

April Fool

... April Fool Ult.NTt-i Uoz Cranberries (or Any goff fruit), iu: Castor Sugar, ' jpt Double Cream, lot of'tusked Macaroons, im toasted Hazelnuts and 4 tbsp The Macallan Malt Whisky . Puree the fruit the sugar then chill. Whip the cream and fold the fruit ...

Published: Wednesday 01 April 1987
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 168 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

April fool?

... April fool? IT MIGHT shed some light on Sir Peter Scott's naming of the Loch Ness Monster if it is recalled that Nessitera Rhombopteryx (not Nessitarius as you have it) is an anagram of 'Monster hoax by Sir Peter'. writes Mr J. Duncan, Albany Terrace ...

Published: Saturday 15 August 1987
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 55 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

APRIL FOOL

... APRIL FOOL. The April fish, the poisson d'Avril, is the French term for what we call an April fool. The custom of sending people on fool's errands on April Lit is probably due to the change of the calendar in France in 1564; but there is Hindu feast ...

Published: Friday 08 July 1910
Newspaper: Mid-Lothian Journal
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 76 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

An April Fool

... An April Fool. Isabel Seymour was an acknowledged belle in society. She had many admirers, but Vivian Mortimer was her choice. He was very wealthy in this world’s goods, and was also the possessor of a handsome face aqd fine figure. Wherever Miss Seymour ...

Published: Wednesday 23 March 1887
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 502 | Page: 3 | Tags: none