Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London Palladium. Though the average Briton did not know what "striptease" meant, he knew it was a Broadway specialty, suspected that therefore it was probably indecent. So much hubbub foamed up in London's press that the staid Palladium canceled the act and the more racy Victoria Palace grabbed...
Last week British journalists described Victoria Palace audiences as "bewildered" by what they saw. Through the gloomiest of blue lights on a Stygian-dark stage, behind a gauze curtain, Diane appeared and rolled her hips. The audience sat still as mutton. Diane, accustomed to Broadway's anticipatory outburst of clapping, was nonplussed but stuck to her strip-tease routine. The next move, she thought, would get them. Sinuously she let fall from her creamy shoulders a vast chiffon cape, then, striding rapidly to the wings, unsnapped her split skirt, showed a shapely thigh just before she disappeared. In vain...
...Mother Knows Best" into a system of government for the Indian Empire is just about the most admirable achievement of modern times, if indeed His Majesty's Government have not been too generous with the Indian people, those "Lesser Breeds" as Poet Kipling dubbed them in Queen Victoria...
...Tanganyika in 1858 was his last big undertaking, met with incredible difficulties from the start. He was underfinanced, caravan mutinies and desertions were constant. On the last stages he was half-blinded and paralyzed by fever. Quarrels with his lieutenant John Hanning Speke, who went on alone to discover Victoria Nyanza, echoed for 20 years after. To escape them, Burton went to Salt Lake City to have a look at the Mormons. Brigham Young's harem reminded him of a "large English hunting stable" and after a brief taste of the prevailing moral strictness he sailed for home. Between...
With the publication of The Arabian Nights five years before his death in 1890, Burton became a literary sensation, was knighted by Queen Victoria-not for his embarrassingly faithful translation but for his explorations. His next effort, a translation of The Scented Garden, was to make "Mrs. Grundy howl." But the storm he foresaw over its publication broke instead over Isabel when horrified litterateurs, among them Burton's close crony Swinburne, learned that immediately after Burton's death she had destroyed the manuscript along with his diaries for 40 years...