Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Upon the good ship Paris arrived in Manhattan Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna, cousin of King George of Britain, younger sister of Queen Marie of Rumania, wife of Cyrille Vladimiro- vitch, self-ordained Tsar of all the Russias (TIME...
...climbing a mountain to inspect gold and silver mines of which he was part owner. His daughter by his first marriage was known as 'the frappeed baby" from cold storage methods used to cure a childish illness. His mother, Mrs. Pierre Lorillard Ronalds, was a favorite of Queen Victoria...
...tendency in modern biography to be fair instead of flattering, to tell the plain facts instead of forcing the great man to conform to the thesis of the book, began with Lytton Strachey's "Queen Victoria" The new method was so interesting and compelling that later biographies had perforce to copy the manner or fail to arrest attention. But where a man has been made into a myth, as Stevenson certainly has, the task of the biographer becomes doubly hard, for he must go against accepted opinion, and people will only half believe what he says...
Died. Lord Knollys, 87, onetime confidant to Queen Victoria; in London. He served the late King Edward as private secretary and filled the same office for King George, until age forced his retirement. He was a lifelong friend of the Queen Mother, Alexandra, now going on 80. Possessor of innumerable court secrets, he was mum as a headstone. A publisher sent him a blank check so that he could fix his own price for a book of reminiscences ; he tore up the check. In the days when Edward VII was a rollicking Prince of Wales, Knollys was often the butt...
Rumors. It was rumored that the Baron would leave his ranch early in October in order to visit Jasper National Park in the Rockies, and Victoria. Starting his return trip about the middle of the month he will, it was said, "make short visits to several Canadian towns, including Toronto, before coming to Manhattan to catch the Mauretania...