Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wanted my soul what the hell did you want my soul for how do you know I have a soul who says so nobody says so but you the devil and everybody knows the devil is all lies." Arrested for driving 37 m.p.h. along London's Victoria Embankment (7 m.p.h. over the speed limit), Captain George Edward Thomas Eyston, holder of the world's landspeed record (357.5 m.p.h.), with wicked cunning pleaded that he had "only just returned from America...
...portrayed Ferdinand de Lesseps, who actually had two wives and ten children, as a lovesick young bachelor, and explained England's participation in his canal-building as the result of a General Election which never occurred. In Sixty Glorious Years, a dinner-table chat between Disraeli and Queen Victoria shows how the matter was actually handled. This reverence for the real is characteristic of a picture which is aimed at historical fidelity rather than romantic excitement, but often achieves both...
Fifty-three years old, Clark's formal record sounds very like a geophysicist and very unlike a child story teller: Harvard Ph.D. in 1914 with a record of "A's", Phi Beta Kappa, teacher successively at ten colleges such as Radcliffe, Oberlin, Stanford and Victoria in New Zealand, he feels that children's books are too staid, that his are going to be different...
...inform Her Majesty that she has become the senior partner of the firm of Victoria and De Lesseps." These words, spoken by Disracli (Miles Mander) as he becomes Prime Minister, are the climax of "Suez," which opened yesterday at the Metropolitan. Yet if the doughty express, veiled, escorted, guarded, had personally visited her "ditch," she could scarcely have received a less realistic picture of how it was built than Darry I. F. Zanuck gives the American public. The workmen, the soldiers, the treachery of the Arabs and have of the simoon are all shown, but the audience...
...Queen Victoria and Wilde have appeared twice: in the plays bearing their names, and together in Knights of Song...