Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author. Harold Nicolson (44), third and youngest son of Sir Arthur, grew up in the diplomatic atmosphere of foreign legations, entered the Foreign Office in 1909, later served in Embassies at Madrid and Constantinople. He married (1913) Authoress Victoria Sackville-West (TIME, Sept. 1). They have two sons. Egregious among present biographers, historians, he has a style polite, accurate, ironic, never loud. Viz: "Mr. Henry White, the United States representative was conciliatory, ignorant and charming...
...Meeting of the Pacific Coast Oto-Ophthalmological Society; at Victoria, B. C., Canada...
...that Dersingham finds his firm caught in fatal advance contracts with prices of foreign stock raised prohibitively. At this juncture Golspie, with the resuscitated Lena, embarks for South America, while Miss Matfield, who had finally consented to a weekend trip with her tycoon, forlornly looks for him at Victoria station, waiting to be seduced. The book closes with glimpses of the Smeeth and Dersingham families, sitting about the collapsed business and hoping for a fall of manna, while Golspie floats vociferously down the Thames...
...Victoria...
Born. To Princess Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon, Duchess of York, and Prince Albert Frederick Arthur George. Baron Killarney, Count of Inverness. Duke of York: a daughter (their second). Weight: 7 Ib. Probable names: Cecelia Victoria Margaret...