Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arriving in Southampton for a surprise inspection visit to the Nahlin, King Edward watched cases of champagne, Scotch, soda, lime squash and lemon squash being carried aboard. Royal china and plate from the King's own steam yacht Victoria & Albert will be used on the Nahlin. After a brisk look around His Majesty ordered extra beds set up in the library...
...VICTORIA OF ENGLAND-Edith Sitwell-Houghton Mifflin...
...Herbalist Jerome Bannigan (alias George Andrew McMahon) was arraigned as "McMahon" last week under the Treason Act of 1842, enacted after shots had been fired in the general direction of Queen Victoria. He faces seven years' imprisonment if convicted of having "willfully presented near to the person of the King a firearm "with intent" to break the public peace...
Lawyers discovered on the statute books a law which makes it a crime punishable by flogging and 20 years imprisonment to aim a gun at the Sovereign. It dates from the last of five attempts (in 1882) to assassinate Good Queen Victoria, has never been enforced. Wiseacres wagered that there would be no trial, that Herbalist McMahon would be slipped quietly into an asylum...
Closing her hit play, Victoria Regina, in Manhattan, Actress Helen Hayes journeyed to Chicago with her husband, Playwright Charles MacArthur (Front Page), to defend an alienation-of-affections suit brought by his first wife. In 1920 MacArthur, then a flighty Chicago newshawk, married a fellow-reporter named Carol Frink. She divorced him in 1926. In 1928 he married Actress Hayes. Iri 1932 two cinema magazines published confessional interviews with Cinemactress Hayes clearly intimating that MacArthur had ditched Miss Frink for her. Miss Frink then sued...