Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...former Labor Peer Lord Ponsonby, who made his political career as a champion of the League of Nations, before that was a Court page to Queen Victoria and today is a Government supporter, appeared to echo the sentiments of most of Their Lordships when he keynoted: "Nobody in this country can have any enthusiasm for a war to aid Czechoslovakia...
...without the money to buy him a license at all. With the twists given this incident by a bright young journalist (Rex Harrison), Patsy's grief is heard all the way to London, and the resulting sympathy nearly forces Provost Gow into the political doghouse. But his daughter Victoria (Vivien Leigh) brings everybody to heel...
...first international underwater telegraph cable was laid in 1850 across 25 miles of English Channel from Dover to Cape Gris Nez, France. The first transatlantic cable was opened by Queen Victoria and President Buchanan in 1858. Since then, in all parts of the world, some 3,500 cables, totaling 300,000 miles in length, have been put in operation. They lie flat and tensionless on the floor of the ocean, avoid undersea peaks and canyons, go no deeper than about three miles, cost around $2,000 a mile. Inside each cable a copper conducting wire, 1 in. thick, is protected...
...succeed a long period of obstruction and difficulties of all kinds." But Count Baillet-Latour's optimistic visions turned out to be an Egyptian mirage. No sooner had the committeemen taken a peaceful look at the pyramids and toured the Nile than they sat down aboard the steamer Victoria and started squabbling...
Wishing to take a vacation incognito, Britain's popular ex-Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden disguised himself, passed through London's thronged Victoria Station, entrained for the Riviera (see p. 21) unrecognized. His disguise: a brown felt hat instead of curled-brim black Homburg...