Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...carriage. The postilion who was riding the horse sprawled upon the road. The other horses snorted, plunged, backed, tangled up the harness. Aghast at the possible consequences to their aged master, the other postilions quieted the horses as soon as possible, rushed to assist the white-haired Victorian statesman from his carriage, bundled him safely into a motor, sighed with relief at the news that he seemed "none the worse for being badly shaken...
Since it is Probable that few Senators "attend chapel", one could hardly, except one were a mid-Victorian Methodist, wax earnest over the matter. Yet the protests suggest an analogy to a retort that President Tyler once occasioned after the death of President Harrison had raised him to the office. He was about to purchase a used carriage when, seriously or no, he turned to his negro servant and asked, "Jim, do you think it's all right for a President to buy a second hand carriage?" The answer was, "Well boss, you'se a second hand President...
...succor to fighting men by maintaining the St. John's Ambulance Association. For the rest, the order is now chiefly honorary. Queen Victoria graciously presented the Knights and Ladies with a royal charter, and Edward VII and George V have served successively as Sovereign Head and Patron of this Victorian revival. In consequence of such royal patronage, British warships will be required to fire an official salute upon the approach of the knightly-cruise ship, which is scheduled to leave for the Mediterranean in March...
Former war padres and their once militant flocks surged into Albert Hall, famed Victorian mecca of public gatherings and sounding board for many a worthy cause. Within they found Edward, Prince of Wales, with the "Toc. H." lamp in his hand. "Toc. H."ers performed an interlude in seven episodes. The Rev. P. B. Clayton, founder of "Toc. H." was there. At the conclusion of the ceremony innumerable additional "Toc. H." lamps were lit, and lamp bearers started for New Zealand, South Africa, India...
Died. Sir Richard Douglas Powell, 83, in London. He was successively Physician in Ordinary to Their Majesties Victoria, Edward VII, and George V, first Baron Powell, Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knight Commander of the Victorian Order, perhaps the greatest English specialist in diseases of the heart and lungs, famed champion of the dietetic properties of suet pudding...