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FROM MY SCRAPBOOK

... FROM MY SCRAPBOOK IN the eyes of the law she hadn't a chance. She was just a poor soul whose husband was away in the Army, and she was being evicted from her home in Govan because she was behind with her rent. There was a young family, and with her husband ...

Published: Sunday 15 September 1957
Newspaper: Sunday Mail (Glasgow)
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 1068 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

Leaves from my Scrap-Book

... Leaves from my Scrap-Book. 11. Original Burns Stories. To the immortal memory of Robert Burns ! How are we to explain his growing popularity? Carlyle has given us worthy estimate of the greatest literary genius Scotland has produced. Notwithstanding ...

Published: Thursday 24 January 1907
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 839 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Scrapbook

... Scrapbook HE potted history of radio’s “Scrapbook” 1s guaranteed to make even the dullest vear seem exc'ting in retrospect, especially if the vear in ocus is within the listener’s memory. Leslie first hit on the scrapbook idea more than vears ago. and ...

Published: Saturday 29 October 1955
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1557 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

FROM THE SCRAP-BOOK AT HUNA INN

... FROM THE SCRAP-BOOK AT HUNA INN. Robert Gray Mason paid a visit to the celebrated spot called John O'Groat's House, the 10th of March, 1841, the close of a nine month's tour of benevolence in the islands of Shetland and Orkney. He spe.it three days ...

Published: Friday 26 March 1841
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1547 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Leaves from my Scrap-Book

... Leaves from my Scrap-Book. ABOUT UMBRELLAS. Almost everything lias a history. But, as >ne struggles along during some beating rain, trying keep the umbrella from turning inside out, it never occurs to him to inquire concerning the appearance and the ...

Published: Thursday 11 April 1907
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 829 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Leaves from my Scrap-Book

... Leaves from my Scrap-Book. THE ORIGIN OF SOME FAMOUS SAYINGS. Much interest attaches to many our familiar sayings—the origin which little known and somewhat obscure. propose to give an account of several these, and the circumstances that gave rise to ...

Published: Thursday 07 March 1907
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1068 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Leaves from my Scrap-Book

... Leaves from my Scrap-Book. Some years ago the Spectator gave a choice selection of Irish bulls, and the following are worthy of special mention : Did you ever see so thin a woman that before ? Thin, said the other farmer, I seen a woman down in ...

Published: Thursday 14 February 1907
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 847 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

“SCRAPBOOK FOR 1924”

... “SCRAPBOOK FOR 1924” Charles Brewer and Leslie Baily will | present “Scrapbook for 1924” in the Scottish programme at 7.0 to-night. This “ Scrapbook ” will be less historic than previous ones, as it will deal with events which have not yet passed into ...

Published: Wednesday 27 May 1936
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 734 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

DUNDEE SCRAPBOOK

... DUNDEE SCRAPBOOK Perhaps the most important programme of the week from Dundee is the Scrapbook,” to be broadcast at .8 p.m. in the Scottish Home Service on Wednesday. November. F° r this programme half-a-dozen Dundee writers are co-operating with the ...

Published: Wednesday 17 November 1948
Newspaper: Falkirk Herald
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 192 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Scrapbook play

... Scrapbook play “Schweyk in the Second World War,” at the Mermaid Theatre, is not much of a play either—despite the credentials of its author, Bertolt Brecht. Nor does Frank Dunlop’s production have any more pace than Mr Graef's. Still, there are compensations ...

Published: Monday 26 August 1963
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 234 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

CARNOUSTIE SCRAPBOOK

... CARNOUSTIE SCRAPBOOK scale. Early in the present century ‘he Merry Widow Hats were the aeight of fashion. These were huge ;artwheel affairs, kept in place by ong hatpins of a most vicious nature. The pins, which had, as 1 rule, large circular gem-studded ...

NATURE SCRAPBOOK

... and we were able to read the time from our watches unaided. From the wood across the burn a bird chirped, and then at 3.42 came the tinkling song of the robin. Three minutes later a mavis broke suddenly into song from the trees on our side of the burn ...

Published: Friday 10 June 1949
Newspaper: Midlothian Advertiser
County: West Lothian, Scotland
Type: | Words: 1193 | Page: 2 | Tags: none