Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leading Manhattan gallery exhibited at one time in the summer of 1928 the work of 69 etchers. Last summer it showed prints by 100. That foreign connoisseurs are recognizing U. S. etchers was shown when, in 1928. the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris exhibited U. S. prints. Last spring the Victoria and Albert Museum, under the patronage of British Ambassador to Washington Sir Esme Howard, held an even larger show of the same kind...
Louis C. Rosenberg of Manhattan finds pleasure wandering about Rome and Constantinople, doing stately ruins, picturesque mosques. Good Rosenbergs now fetch more than $70 each. He is represented in the British and Victoria & Albert Museums, London, besides various U. S. museums...
...later of several others. Admiral Campbell accounted for four of the enemy's deadly underwater crafts, which in April 1917 were so depleting British tonnage that high Admiralty officials saw unconditional surrender within three months staring them in the face. For heroism in action on the high seas the Victoria Cross was twice conferred on Admiral Campbell, as well as the Distinguished Service Order and two bars. The French Government made him an Officer of the Legion of Honor and awarded him the Croix de Guerre...
Leaving the South Seas, the Johnsons reached the Indian Ocean, crossed to Alexandria, went up to the Victoria Nile. Animals now replace the twisted faces of man-eating men. Driven by drought, a procession of game in stretched, incredible battalions passes the tents on the Serengetti plains?first zebras, then hartebeests, buck, cheetahs, gazelles, giraffes, rhinos, wild dogs, all superbly photographed. They stand out in relief as clearly as if they were posed in a studio...
...these institutions has Dottoressa Montessori actively participated since 1914 because of bureaucratical opposition to her method. Although she dislikes travel save by automobile or airplane, she went abroad the previous year. In England she fared well, establishing institutions, receiving an honorary D.Litt. from Durham University. In the state of Victoria, Australia, mental defectives are corrected by her system. South Australia subsidizes Montessori kindergartens...