Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some three years ago the jeweled crown of H. M. Augusta Victoria, late Kaiserin of Germany, vanished mysteriously from the Imperial palace, Unter den Linden. Since this pompous trinket of gold and jewels is valued at $875,000, many a detective has been vainly seeking it. Last week a clue was found...
...leather hatbox, shortly after its disappearance, by a man who claimed to represent Wilhelm of Doorn. The jeweler was instructed to contract the circumference of the crown. Dutifully he set to work. When he began it was of a size to encompass the swelling blond mane of Augusta Victoria, daughter of the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein. When he completed his task, it had shrunk to a nice fit for the modish head of Hermine, Princess von Reuss, present consort of Wilhelm, one-time Imperator...
...Medical Counci* for sinning against its established fiats. Dr. Axham was one of the famed of British physicians, almost adored by the poor whom he attended without fee. During the Chinese war on board an otherwise doctorless ship he singlehandedly cared for 300 fever-stricken patients. For that Queen Victoria personally thanked...
Thus Jesus washed the feet of his Twelve Disciples on the Thursday before his resurrection, and since the Fourth Century most Catholic monarchs have performed a similar ceremony each year. Last week Victoria Eugenie washed the feet of 13 poor women at Madrid. By her side, Alfonso XIII washed the feet of 13 poor men. The grandees of Spain contributed to furnish the sumptuous dinner which was thereafter supplied to these 26 starvelings, the venerated living symbols of the Apostles...
...lieutenant, laid plans last week for a trip around the world in record time on which he will be accompanied in June by Edward S. Evans, wealthy Detroit sportsman. The travel time set was 25 days. Starting from Manhattan, the Globe-racers are to fly in 30 hours to Victoria, B. C., board the Empress of Russia, fastest (8-day) trans-Pacific vessel, jump from Japan to Vladivostok in a Japanese destroyer (it is hoped), spend nine days on the Siberian railroad, fly from Moscow to Berlin, to Amsterdam, to Cherbourg, hoping to catch the Mauretania, fastest (5-day) trans...