Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Queen Victoria did not see fit to receive him. Spying her one day, he waved a friendly hand. She did not return the greeting but merely "muttered comments which I did not hear." On Mar. 5, 1905, he ordered a whiskey, lifted high his glass. "If I ever take another drink," he declaimed, "I hope to choke, so help me God." The rabble guffawed. Sullivan poured the drink into the spittoon-a conversion which constituted the chief prop of the Temperance Party for years thereafter. In 1915, on a small Massachusetts farm, John L. Sullivan died...
PAUL BUNYAN-James Stevens - Knopf ($2.50). Among the French Canadian loggers that swung axes, mattocks and murderous steam-warped wooden pitchforks upon the troops of Queen Victoria in the Papineau Rebellion of 1837, there roared a thick-thewed, bellicose, hairy giant named Paul Bunyon. At his skull-crushing feats in that episode, and his later accomplishments as a boss logger, lumber camp historians have marveled ever since...
...knows anything about it or not, Intellectually. I have the same interest in Mr. Bryan's ideas of evolution as I have in Henry Ford's ideas on the prose of George Moore or Mary Pickford's ideas on the theory of relativity, or for that matter, what Queen Victoria thought about the procession of equinoxes...
...King and Queen went to Dover and crossed over to Calais. They refused the French Government's offer of a special train and proceeded by train de luxe to Genoa, where the royal yacht Victoria and Albert waited to take their Majesties on a Mediterranean cruise...
This is the first Council of State to be held in the present reign. One was held during the reign of Queen Victoria and many during the reign of King Edward, who was prone to wander at fitful intervals all over the Continent...