Word: victorians
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During his wide travels Lieutenant Sousa has received numerous decorations in recognition of his ability as a leader and a musician. Besides being decorated with the Victorian Order of England he has received the Palms of the Academy, a French decoration and medals from other countries...
...Worcester received his master's degree from the University in 1881 and graduated from the Medical School in 1883. He has been a practicing physician since his graduation in Waltham where he founded the Waltham Training School for Nurses in 1885. He assisted in establishing the Victorian Order of Nurses in Canada in 1897. For two years during the World war he served with the American Red Cross as Deputy Commissioner in Switzerland with the rank of Major and was decorated by King Albert of Belgium with the Order of Leopold...
...remained to luncheon. Among those present were Premier Painlevé, Foreign Minister Briand, Minister of Marine Borel, ex-President and Mme. Raymond Poincaré. Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux was tactfully absent. The King afterwards invested Premier Painlevé with the insignia of a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order...
...treatment of inferiors. His passion was imperialism and no toe, no matter to whom it belonged, escaped his heel if its owner got in the way of his policy. Few men were a match for him in withering invective; none surpassed him. He was a statesman of the old Victorian school, which had much to commend it but which is now something of an anachronism...
...modern male still has a chance to pull himself from the disgraceful mire of effeminacy into which he has been steadily sinking since the razing of the Victorian forest primeval. Mr. Arthur Ponsonby, M.P., has recently been warming the Atlantic cables with a revolutionary, proposal for all men to grow beards...