Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Churchill is an individualist of such reckless stamp that only chance kept him from the gallows until he attained the armor of prestige and power. A minor exploit of his youth was to "shinny" up the central pillar in a London music hall, wearing the uniform of his Queen (Victoria) and demand three cheers for every daughter of joy in the house. Theirs were, he shouted, the only bosoms on which the tired head of a British soldier could always find repose. By a miracle he was not cashiered?rose to hold the purse strings of the Exchequer...
Gladstone now has entered the Limbo of broken idols, with Florence Nightingale, Queen Victoria, George Washington, and Galahad. A certain Captain Wright in his "Portraits and Criticisms" asserts that "Mr. Gladstone...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 the strictest principles, and in private to pursue and possess any sort of woman." Gladstone's sons have retorted by telling Captain Wright that he is a liar; Captain Wright has delivered the last counter-check in suing the Gladstone...
Last week, Viscount Julian Byng of Vimy, onetime Governor General of Canada (1921-26), presided in London at a banquet attended by Edward of Wales and there loosed what Queen Victoria would have called "a fearful oath...
FarewelL At Victoria Station the King-Emperor and his Consort, who never leave London to welcome or say farewell to anyone, bade Godspeed to the Duke and Duchess as they entrained for Portsmouth. With grave decorum the King-Emperor entered the Ducal railway compartment, kissed his daughter-in-law, half-embraced his son with a fatherly pat upon the back and stepped out of the com- partment again onto the platform. Edward of Wales, always in high spirits when chatting with his merry sister-in-law, rode down to Portsmouth, as did Prince Henry and Prince George. When the royal...
...Most Excellent Majesty, the Queen-Empress Victoria Mary, became intrigued last week at one of the great London shops by a child's game known as "Spilliwobble...