Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days ago somebody prepared a message for telegraphing to Washington-to which President Lowell's signature was obtained-beginning: "In eighteen sixty-one, Queen Victoria and Abraham Lincoln joined to prevent war between England and America over the Trent affair." In the Herald, through a typographical error, the word "one" came out "our", so that it read: "In eighteen sixty our Queen Victoria and Abraham Lincoln," etc. But how any person of ordinary intelligence could suppose that the writer of any such message would put the possessive pronoun before the British Queen and omit it from Abraham Lincoln passes understanding...
...creditable to Harvard when its distinguished spokesmen are obliged to misquote history to justify their position when they say 'In 1860 our Queen Victoria and Abraham Lincoln joined to prevent war over the Trent affair." In these words E. F. McSweeney attacks the telegram sent by President Lowell and a thousand other members of the University asking Senator Lodge of defeat the Mason Bill...
...McSweeney makes much of the "our" which he finds before "Queen Victoria." He is either the victim of or guilty of gross misrepresentation. The telegram actually read "In eighteen-sixty-one Queen Victoria and Abraham Lincoln...
...eighteen-sixty, Queen Victoria and Abraham Lincoln joined to prevent war between England and America over Trent affair. Two countries look to you to do the same today by preventing passage of Mason Resolution. Preservation of Anglo-American peace best security for liberties of Ireland and peace of world...
...going to make a request of the Harvard Mission, and I hope the committee will see its way clear to grant it. The thing that is most desired in the club, a thing which all the people of this country enjoy, is a Victoria. It would be a great attraction if we had one to put in the club. Of course, the machine would belong permanently to the Social Service Committee of the Y. M. C. A., and could be used for concerts on other occasions. Would it not be possible to get some friend to donate a machine...