Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even those unskilled in art or architecture can appreciate the beauty of the New Fogg Museum. Its very simplicity and its proven capabilities in adequately lousing an art collection have attracted the praise of the uninitiated. Now comes Professor Maclagan, of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, who seconds by professional criticism the verdict of the general public. What he has to say concerning the new Quincy Street building may be accepted as authoritative, for surely there is no better authority for such criticism than a man who has been beset by many of the problems which the planners...
Professor Eric R. D. Maclagan, Director and secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the second incumbent of the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry, will begin his course of ten lectures on Italian Sculpture on November 2, it has recently been announced...
...interested in the article on SPAIN in TIME, Sept. 26. It is certainly tragic that all King Alfonso's sons should be practically invalids. Of course the bad blood comes through Queen Victoria of Spain's father, Prince Henry of Battenberg, who was a Hesse-Darmstadt like Empress Alexandra of Russia, and her only son, Tsarevitch Alexis, had hemophilia as Crown Prince Alfonso has. Also Queen Victoria of Spain's two brothers were both delicate and died young, Prince Maurice and Prince Leopold of Battenberg, only her eldest brother Alexander (now Marquess of Carisbrooke in England...
...majesty Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes, Queen over the British Commonwealth of Nations, bent her knees and lifted her feet in dashing oldtime dances at Balmoral, royal Scottish home...
...could overlook the King Albert memorial on a distinct promise that it would never occur again, but deliberately to repeat the crime in the Queen Victoria work and Nurse Edith Cavell monument makes one shudder...