Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Neighborhood. Across the street stands the Leiter mansion wherein George Nathaniel Curzon, who later became the Marquess of Curzon, late famed Foreign Secretary of Great Britain, married Mary Victoria Leiter, heiress of Levi Z. Leiter, Chicago storekeeper. Andrew W. Mellon lives in an apartment a block away. Nearby is the Belgian Embassy and the home of the late Senator Lodge. The White House is ten blocks distant...
...matronly daughter, Peggy. This, the highest paid assemblage ever seen on one legitimate stage, enacts for the fourth time in the U. S. (the first, 1898) the fortunes of those shockingly Bohemian actors and actresses who strutted in famed Sadler's "Wells" during the reign of good Queen Victoria. To the zip-gobbling audiences of this day, the play offers mellow humor and pathos-qualities whose commercial values are doubtful. To the student of the theatre, to the lover of stage personalities, it is irresistable. Dramatist Pinero in Trelawny has created a young playwright-one whose theories and struggles...
...TIME, July 26, 1926, quoted the passage referred to : "Mr. Gladstone . . . [i. e. Queen Victoria's great prime minister] founded the great tradition, since observed by so many of his followers and successors with such pious fidelity: in public to speak the language of the highest and strictest principles and in private to pursue and possess every sort of woman...
...Queen Victoria's Prime Ministers: PRIME MINISTERS...
...late Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone was a gross sensualist. ... At a meeting of the Supreme War Council Lord Milner said of Mr. Gladstone that his policies were governed by 'his seraglio'. . . . Lord Morley once told me that Lord Granville told him he had known five of Queen Victoria's Prime Ministers who had committed adultery. I am sure that Mr. Gladstone must have been one of these.* . . . The actress Lillie Langtry, 'The Jersey Lily,' was well-known in the U. S. to be Mr. Gladstone's mistress. . . . Another was Olga Novikov whom the Tsarist Government sent to England especially...