Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Opening the second series of the Charles Eliot Norton Poetry Lectures, Professor Eric R. D. Maclagan, C.B.E., F.S.A., A.R.I.B.A., Director and Secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, will deliver tonight his first lecture on the History of Italian Sculpture...
Arthur William Patrick Albert, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, is the third son of Queen Victoria. A shy, sensitive man, he has been less in the public eye than any other Prince of the British Blood Royal. His career has been for the most part spent in the Army. At the age of 20 he served in Canada in suppressing the Fenian raid and later saw active service in Egypt. Rising by easy royal stages, he finally achieved the not unmerited rank of a Field Marshall...
Following the unfortunate discovery that many of the books in the Chicago Library were the gift of prominent Englishmen after the great fire. Mayor Thompson has as yet found no rebuttal to the charity of Queen Victoria and her generation. Meanwhile, in New England and other parts of the country still under British domination, the flames of sedition are unchecked. Professor Albert Bushnell Hart, in an address before the Schoolmasters Club of Massachusetts, speaks openly of the "laugh that is sweeping the country" as a result of the Mayor's activities; and although Professor Hart denies that...
Engaged. Princess Victoria zu Schaumburg-Lippe, 61, sister of the onetime (1888-1918) Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany, widow of the late (1916) Prince Adolf zu Schaumburg-Lippe, to Alexander Zubkov, 27, Russian refugee...
...school, but has been "educated" privately by a tutor. It may have been argued that his aristocratic lineage entitled him to many privileges, but Oxford has long been noted for its democratic independence. Magdalen College refused to enter King Edward when he was Prince of Wales because Queen Victoria made stipulations that the head of that institution would not accept; and so the young Prince had to go to the "House" (Christ Church). And many a noble lord with erroneous ideas about his own importance has been reduced to equality by a summary ducking in a fountain...