Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thousand Britons crowded into Hyde Park last week on Queen Victoria's birthday, more popularly known as Empire Day, which England sets aside to honor her great inheritance...
Unlike Stanley Baldwin, Ambassador Howard remembered to pay tribute to Queen Victoria in whose honor Empire Day was started...
Great was the celebration in Windsor when the royal motorcade drove through High Street. Pinafored schoolchildren waved flags and screamed excitedly. The merry housewives of Windsor showered rose petals on King George's sober limousine. At the foot of Queen Victoria's statue stood the black-robed mayor and red-robed Town Councilors...
Instantly cleared of suspicion was the King's private secretary, Baron Stamford-ham, courtly letter-writer and precise putterer, characterized by Queen Victoria as "a model of tact and diplomacy...
Telephone books, magazines, neck ties, whisk brooms, Victoria records are not unusual contributions to the heterogeneous collection of odds and ends that inevitably finds its way to the P. B. H. van. Uncle Eph and the H. A. A. are forced from competition by the wide appeal and intensity of the annual roundup. Antiques, and unique articles of wearing apparel fascinate those spectators who annually follow with interest the progress of the collection...