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Word: victorias (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...love letters of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Prime Minister to Queen Victoria are at length to be fully published...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOKENDS | 3/30/1929 | See Source »

...Black Crook. It was on Sept. 12, 1866, that The Black Crook entered Niblo's Garden in New York. Buxom young ladies appeared in tights which revealed not only their ankles but their hips. In those days people believed with Queen Victoria in the theory that women had no understanding whatever. Next day James Gordon Bennett's New York Herald commended the city to the fire and brimstone of Sodom and Gomorrah. Sunday after Sunday pulpits boomed denunciation. Soon at Niblo's Garden there was only standing room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: In Hoboken | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...Chicago, a Mrs. Victoria Tultric awaited her husband's homecoming, impatiently. A loud and familiar-sounding rap rattled the front door. Mrs. Tultric, impatient, fired a bullet through the door. The man she shot was not errant Mr. Tultric, but Truant Officer Thomas McCarthy calling on duty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Mar. 25, 1929 | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...Queen Mary, accompanied by Princess Mary and the 60-year-old Princess Victoria, the King's sister, descended at Bognor upon the local Woolworth's threepenny and sixpenny shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Royalty | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...Council and allows woman the right to sit within the church in full equality with man, to serve as elder, evangelist, or minister, it will merely be granting its womankind rights long enjoyed in other walks of life. Where would Queen Cleopatra, or that financial wizard and presidential candidate. Victoria Woodhull, or even "Captain Victor Barker", who deceived her valet and for six years masqueraded in London as a war hero, have got under the present Presbyterian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ROCK OF AGES | 3/8/1929 | See Source »

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