Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...peculiar reason the Buckingham banquet was especially merry. Reason: the British Royal House of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha, which changed its name to the House of Windsor during the War, became slightly estranged from the French House of Bourbon, when a most scurrilous cartoon of British Queen Victoria was openly guffawed at by "King Louis Philippe III of France," the cousin and predecessor of the present "King Jean III." Since the Royal Guffawer is now dead and the cartoon forgotten, it was easy, last week, for their Britannic Majesties to bestow gracious hospitality upon Dauphin Henri, a handsome youth...
...chewed up the rear tire. A third lion managed to get at a camera, which was soon reduced to a pulp. It was a thrilling night, but all is well." The experience befell three Boy Scouts now photographing wild animals on the high equatorial plateau just east of Lake Victoria, Africa. The boys-Robert Douglas, 16, of Greensboro, N. C., David Martin, 15, of Austin, Minn., and Douglas Oliver, 15, of Atlanta, Ga., are with Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson. Their message reached George Palmer Putnam, publisher, backer of their expedition, last week. Each boy has killed his lion. When...
Like the present Archbishop of York and Canterbury, Bishop Temple owes his swift rise, in part, to his intimacy with British royalty, but chiefly to his great ability as a leader of social work (particularly labor movements) and as a theologian. Archbishop Lang was Honorable Chaplain to Queen Victoria and close friend of the queen's consort Albert. Archbishop Davidson was first subalmoner to queen, then her domestic chaplain, then her Clerk of the Closet, a post which he continued to hold under Edward VII. His father-in-law was the late Archbishop Tait of Canterbury, to whom...
...magnificence of the First Empire. Eugénie became the patron of the young Englishman. To his shop in the Rue de la Paix came not only Eugénie herself but Charlotte of Mexico, Maria Pia of Portugal, Elizabeth of Austria. Only two reverses came to Founder Worth. Victoria of England would have none of him. And Eugénie, expecting the Prince Imperial, declined to swathe herself in Persian robes, decided to set the style in maternity gowns with the crinoline. Founder Worth battled, but to no avail. The crinoline flourished...
Died. Mrs. B. H. Wyman, 89, California pioneeress, sister of Writer Bret Harte; in Victoria...