Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Right Reverend Bishop James Edward Cowell Welldon, 72, Dean of Durham, onetime (1892-98) Chaplain in Ordinary to Queen Victoria, Headmaster of Harrow School (1885-98), Bishop of Calcutta and Metropolitan of India (1898-1902), translator of various works of Aristotle: "It is difficult for me to understand how educated men and women can find pleasure in hunting and killing animals...
...these words last week the Schlesische Tagespost, reactionary organ of Silesian Nationalists, paid homage to Friedrich Wilhelm, sometime Crown Prince, on the occasion of his 45th birthday. He was born to the late Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, at the Marble Palace, Potsdam...
...London companies which perform opera undistinguished by the vague adjective "grand," or by the fuss and bustle of a "season's opening," are the British National Opera Company, the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company (solely Gilbert & Sullivan operas), the Royal Carlo Rosa Opera Company (all-English cast), the Royal Victoria Hall Company...
George Henry Lewes, the lifelong lover and helper of the woman of genius, also has Miss Haldane's sympathy--"he did for George Eliot what the Prince Consort did for Queen Victoria." The reader is not surprised to learn that in spite of her unconventional marriage the novelist enjoyed the friendship and esteem of most of the other great ones of her time, and that when Lewes was ill a messenger enquired after his health from the court of Queen Victoria...
Professor R. S. Conway, Hulme Professor of Latin Literature, in Victoria University and Visiting Lecturer in Latin at Harvard University, is unable to give the public lecture announced for tomorrow. He expects to lecture on Friday, May 20, at 4.30, in Harvard 1, on "The Philosophy of Virgil", and on Friday, May 27, on "The Architecture of the Epic...