Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jail for crimes committed in Tsar Nicholas' reign.-ED. Sovereigns to Left Sirs: I note in your issue of Feb. 3, under the article "Make a Big V!" the statement: "In successive reigns the head of the Sovereign on coins and stamps faces alternately left & right. Thus Queen Victoria faces left, King Edward VII right, King George V left." Not being familiar with British coins, I am unable to challenge your statement regarding them. However, I have examined British and British Colonial postage stamps for a good many years, as has every philatelist of any experience. Therefore. I must...
...production of Victoria Regina (TIME, Dec. 30), Playwright Laurence Housman, brother of famed Poet A. E. Housman, sailed from England, where his play was banned, to Manhattan. "I am," complained he, "the most censored of British playwrights. Bernard Shaw has had only four plays censored. I have had 32." The original version of Victoria Regina was a series of 32 one-act plays. Because three of Victoria's children, the Duke of Connaught, Princess Beatrice and the Princess Louise, were living, the Lord Chamberlain banned them all. Chuckled Playwright Housman last week: "We gave a private performance...
...Having lost his seat in the general election, James Ramsay MacDonald last week won another in a by-election, and the following disclosure was made by Lord Blanesburgh: "Some days before the state opening of Parliament which was canceled owing to Princess Victoria's death, the King summoned MacDonald and said: 'I think it is all wrong that you who have been Prime Minister for so long, merely because you have no seat either in the Lords or the Commons, should not be present at the state opening of Parliament, and accordingly I invite you to attend...
...Flandin accompanied President Lebrun to the funeral of King George this week in London. There, discreetly behind the scenes, international diplomatic chaffering and haggling occurred on a scale not witnessed since the funeral of Queen Victoria which, behind the scenes, was a diplomatic battle royal over issues arising from the Boer War. This week a new subject of diplomatic discord in London was a secret military alliance between Britain and Greece discovered last week in Athens to have been signed by restored King George II early in December but not registered at Geneva as required by the League Covenant. Into...
...British Empire; after a long illness; in Oxford, England. Six feet, three inches tall and equipped with a voice so powerful that neither Albert Hall's organ nor the Coldstream Guards could drown her notes,, she was a favorite with royalty, performing many times before Queen Victoria, Edward VII, George...