Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...returning from a trip to Alaska, Owney trotted up the gangplank of the steamship Victoria, bound for Japan. There, the Emperor decorated him with a medal. Owney continued around the world by way of the Suez Canal and the Azores. All along the way he was met by bigwigs who awarded him medals. In Manhattan he remained only a few hours before he was whisked onto a westbound mail car. When he arrived in Tacoma, Wash., Owney had traveled round the world in 132 days. So in San Francisco, when he somehow got into a bench show with a houseful...
...elderly eccentric rose, phoned for a bellboy, and gathered his last-minute personal effects into the pocket of his waistcoat. We accompanied him down to the street, where a victoria was drawn up at the curb, the driver waiting by the head of his old cob. Cameras clicked as Tilley stepped into the carriage and sat down. He held his brassie at his side, stiffly, like a sword. By his side sat a pretty girl, who welcomed him to the carriage and made him comfortable...
...nine Christopher is accused of trying to assassinate the infant Princess Victoria. The real gunmen are two Cumberland spies, one of them Christopher's father. Christopher runs away, is found by a peasant who sells him to a cotton manufacturer. Enroute to North England in the company of workhouse children, he falls in love with a slum girl, is involved in a murder and sentenced to be hanged. The good uncle who saves him is an old lover of his dead mother. Viscount Setoun, who sends him to school, gives him an Austrian estate. Christopher's fairy godmother...
...grandmother, and his father, who finally divulges the facts about Christopher's parentage, which "is both better and worse than the reader thought. In chains after making mincemeat of two burly guards, dreamy six-foot Christopher defies his captors to do their worst, says he means to guarantee Victoria's accession to the throne. Having made good many pages later, Christopher asks nothing in return except a royal document canceling his actress friend's unsavory beginnings as a prostitute's daughter...
...Author-In Palestine during the World War, Vaughan Wilkins, son of a slum parson, lived in a dugout reputed to have been shared by Samson & Delilah. And So-Victoria, his first novel, was written in his father-in-law's historic house in Wales, in a London house once occupied by Samuel Pepys, on a freighter during a bad storm, and in Goliad, Texas, where relatives live. At 23 the editor of a London tabloid, he retired from newspaper work after blowing up as assistant editor of Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express. A great-grandfather designed London...