Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chamberlain forgotten that Hongkong-"place of the sweet lagoon"-was the perfect sapphire in Queen Victoria's crown? Where else did such a roadstead curve so lustrously about the skirts of such island hills? This island, 29 square miles, had been England's since 1842, her Pacific Gibraltar, her Pillar of Hercules between the Torrid and the Temperate Zones, her trademark on the map of China...
Sticking hard to his intention to speak only English in the negotiations M. Caillaux addressed photographers who met him at Victoria Station with very carefully enunciated words...
Upon the boat train which slowly glided into Victoria Station, London, from Folkestone was Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, seven times Premier of France. Upon the station platform, ready to greet his French colleague, was monocled, natty British Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain, gifted son of "Brummagen Joe," surrounded by a crowd of officials, French and British...
Lord Curzon was twice married. His first wife, who bore him three daughters, was Mary Victoria Leiter, daughter of L. Z. Leiter of Chicago. His second wife, widow of one Alfred Duggan, daughter of J. Monroe Hinds, former U. S. Minister to Brazil, bore him no children, but had three of her own by her first marriage...
Among other bequests were: The famous Tattershall Castle in Lincolnshire and Bodiam Castle in Sussex?to the British nation; his collection of Oriental treasures?to the Victoria and Albert Museum in Kensington (London) ; portrait of General Lawrence by Sir Joshua Reynolds?to the Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta; his famous Napoleonic library, containing hundreds of books?to Oxford University, or, if refused, to the British Museum; his confidential papers relating to his resignation of the Viceroyalty in India (over a feud with the then General Sir Herbert Horatio Kitchener)?to the British Museum, with injunction "to exercise sound discretion...