Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...varying sizes, shapes, shades and significance are the medals with which nations honor their military heroes, living and dead. No. 1 Medal of the British Empire is the bronze, red-ribboned Victoria Cross, bearing the Royal Crest and the inscription FOR VALOUR. Since the close of the Crimean War in 1856, 1,155 persons have won it "for some signal act of valour or devotion . . . in the presence of the enemy." During the World War, when other medals were being passed out with feverish generosity, the V.C. went to only 633 fighters, proudly maintained its high prestige...
...prove his point Dr. Darrah went to history, discovered some soft-headed doings by folk generally considered to have been quite hardheaded. "Queen Victoria," he revealed, "commanded that her dead husband's clothing be laid out afresh every evening, also water in his basin, and this astonishing rite was performed with scrupulous regularity for nearly 40 years. . . . [There was also] Disraeli, twice premier of England, whom Lytton Strachey describes as 'a vainglorious creature racked by gout and asthma, dyed and corseted with a curl on his miserable old forehead kept in its place all night by a bandana...
From the house on Kingston Hill last week went word that new King Farouk planned to take train to Venice, there board the Italian liner Victoria for Alexandria. The British Foreign Office buzzed excitedly. Presently a new itinerary was announced: train to Marseille, the British liner Viceroy of India to Alexandria, and H. M. S. Ajax to escort the new King across the Mediterranean. Farouk, in his first act as King, politely declined the Ajax. The kindness of the British Admiralty to young King Farouk was matched last week by the British Royal family. King Edward VIII invited King Farouk...
Kings' fortunes vanish into the realm of the mysterious because what a King saves up and bequeaths to his heirs is subject to no probate, no inheritance tax. Queen Victoria, having ascended the throne practically penniless, saved at least $9,000,000. Edward VII was a spendthrift. George V was as thrifty as his grandmother. How big a fortune he passed on to King Edward VIII nobody except the Royal family now knows...
...Victoria's Prince Consort Albert who put the Duchy of Cornwall into profitable shape at a time when its copper mines, with those of Devonshire, produced one-third of Europe's supply. Now the profitable veins have largely run out. There remain a fine fish and oyster business, some mines and quarries, farmlands and a huge piece of South London. These monies go directly to the office of the Duchy of Cornwall in London's Buckingham Gate, only 200 yards from the back door of the Palace. The new King and Admiral Halsey may sometimes be seen...