Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Domestic life with ex-royalty not entirely agreeing with him Alexander Subkoff took to drink. His wife. Princess Victoria zu Schaumburg-Lippe, sister of the former Kaiser, 34 years his senior, not agreeing with his drinking, issued orders. The youthful husband retired to Ahrweiler to take a cure...
...explain Hardy's position in English letters, it is necessary to push the story back to the middle of the 19th century, when Thackeray was writing his voluminously graceful fictions, when Gladstone was hobbling inelegantly through London, when Queen Victoria was swishing around her palace in long dresses. Hardy was then a small boy who took special pleasure in walking through Wessex fields, dawdling to talk with old men as they drove their cattle along the roads. The moors stretched out around the village of Upper Hampton where he lived; at night the wind blew a mist across them...
...Queen, Victoria, granddaughter of Eng land's great Victoria, dislikes, in common with most Britishers, the bull fight. A sporting, "horsy" nation, they hate particularly to hear of horses blindfolded and torn to pieces in the ring. Marquez cried through the streets of London that bull fighting is not cruel. He proposed to prove it; to fight a bull in London; to show that speed, skill, sportsmanship which England worships are foundations of his trade. No horses would be disemboweled. Instead of killing the bull he would kiss it; tease the beast a little; stroke it; finally plant...
...Afterwards I danced at the Kaim Saal. The students went fairly crazy. Night after night they unharnessed the horses from my carriage and drew me through the street?, singing their student songs and leaping with lighted torches on either side of my victoria. Often, for hours, they would group themselves outside my hotel window and sing, until I threw them my flowers...
Astronomy 9. Theoretical Astrophysics. Lectures and seminar (three times a week; hours to be arranged). Mr. H. H. Plaskett, Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Victoria...