Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Victoria Station, within eight minutes' brisk walk of Buckingham Palace, there gathered last week several hundred British Laborites, led by the Right Honorable Arthur Henderson, to cheer and wave good-by to the Soviet Russian Chargé d'Affaires, A. P. Rosengolz, now banished with his staff from Britain by decree of the Baldwin Cabinet (TIME, June 6) backed by a Conservative majority in the House of Commons...
Young nurses chanced to be patrolling Victoria Station selling red Red Cross poppies, and these the Laborites bought, hilarious at the coincidence...
...first it was the Queen's Plate, for, in 1859, Her Majesty Queen Victoria granted "50 golden guineas ... to be run for at Toronto or such other place in Upper Canada as Her Majesty may appoint." Because the tradition founded then is unbroken, Summer came to Canada last week after the running of the King's Plate before the largest race-crowd to assemble at Woodbine Park, Toronto, since...
Fifty golden guineas ($255) and an added purse of $15,000 were "to be run for," in the language of Victoria, Regina, et Imperatrix. As the barrier was sprung, 16 "platers" got away in an absolutely clean break after only four minutes at the post. . . . The field strung out. . . . Then, on the home stretch, two almost equally favored horses, Troutlet and Mr. Gaiety, had it nose to nose. Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King of Canada and Governor-General Willingdon both clapped glasses to their eyes, bent forward, tense, tried to see which horse crossed the winning mark first. Then...
...Duke of Clarence was engaged to Princess Victoria Mary of Teck at the time of his death (1892), but in the succeeding year the Princess was married to Prince George, now King and Emperor. Chance interrupted the succession and brought to a young sailor prince his consort and his throne. How has Chance dealt with Gaston Doumergue...