Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...onetime Kaiserin, Auguste Victoria, arrived on the same day, much broken down in health. As months passed, it was she, not Wilhelm, who passed sleepless nights and nerve-wracked days, lest the Allies enforce Part IV (Penalties) Article 227 of the Treaty of Versailles. Therein are inscribed the most celebrated "dead sentences" of that document: "The Allied and Associated Powers publicly arraign William II, of Hohenzollern, formerly German Emperor, for a supreme offense against international morality and the sanctity of treaties...
...face and broad of figure: Oscar Frederick William Olaf Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Skane and Crown Prince of Sweden. Small, dark, sharp of feature: Louise, Crown Princess of Sweden, daughter of Prince Louis Battenberg, second cousin of the Prince of Wales, great-granddaughter of the great and plump Victoria. Under their feet: the motor-ship Gripsholm making its way into New York Harbor...
Lord Chesterfield gave his name to a cigaret; Robert Burns to a cigar. English royalty brought no action because the name of Queen Victoria's consort was borrowed for a frock coat. George Washington is godfather to a kind of coffee; Abraham Lincoln to an automobile. Why then should a descendant of General Ambrose Everett Burnside object to having her uncle remembered for his whiskers? So pleaded the counsel defending Colgate & Co. against a suit for damages brought (TIME, May 31) by Miss Ella Patterson of Milwaukee, niece of the whiskered soldier. Her suit was dismissed...
...little more than half way through the continent we take a long trip on foot to the north and then proceed east north of Victoria Nyanza, finally coming out on the coast at Monabassa...
Died. Sir Squire Bancroft, 85, "doyen of the English" stage, for 20 years manager of the Prince o' Wales's and Haymarket Theatres, player of over 500 roles, knighted by Queen Victoria; in London, after a lingering illness...