Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Queen Victoria once advised Cosmo Gordon Lang, long before he became Archbishop of York, to marry. He answered: "If I have a curate who is unsatisfactory, I can dispose of him, but a wife is another matter." Last week Victoria's grandson named the wit to be the 97th Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of all England, effective Nov. 12. He will be the first bachelor to have held that office for 150 years. Randall Thomas Davidson, present Archbishop of Canterbury, has been married 50 years. November 12 will mark the golden wedding anniversary of his wedding with Edith...
Ellen Terry was born, as it were, between an exit and a curtain call, while her mother and father were playing in Coventry. At eight she made her debut as Mamillius in The Winter's Tale, a performance witnessed with apparent pleasure by Queen Victoria. When Ellen Terry was twice as old she married the then famed Painter Watts. He divorced her when she had borne two children to Charles Wardell whom she later married. After that Ellen Terry went into retirement whence she was rescued by Charles Reade. From this time, her stage career grew to its zenith...
Even a peevish King would have found it good to be back in Spain. Merry, spanking breezes stiffened the purple Royal Standard above Castle Magdalena, which signified the presence of comely Queen Victoria Eugenie with Royal Infantes† and Infantas on the seaside at smart Santander. Her Majesty, a granddaughter of Britain's late Queen Victoria, would be pleased to hear the gossip of her native Court, pleased too that King Alfonso had "seen his tailor" in Savile Row so successfully. The tall Infantas would sit upon their taller father's knees like little girls, playing with...
...energy. For nearly a half-century she managed the New York Diet Kitchen Association and was active in many another social service body in and about Manhattan. Tireless, vivid, she mounted many a platform in her last years, a majestic old gentlewoman in the kind of hats Queen Victoria liked, voicing the kind of ideas with which Queen Victoria's great-great-grandchildren will grow...
Thus did a seven-year-stickler for tradition speak amuck, at last, shattering a precedent which was established when Speaker Charles Shaw Lefevre was created Viscount Eversley by Queen Victoria in 1857.* Perhaps only once before has John Henry Whitley broken with tradition. In 1921 he was the first Briton ever to take the Speaker's Chair after having been "in trade" (in business). Modest yet inflexible, he last week retired as a commoner entitled to a pension of £4,000 ($19,440) a year, having risen from the nonentity of a poor cotton spinner. His successor is Speaker...