Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...managed to accumulate ?250,000 of debts in three years. Brighton, despite its quaint, un-English charm, its surface respectability, had been the scene of his historic revels, remained so charged with memories of the great, bawdy days of the Regency that it seemed faintly disreputable even after Victoria's death...
After somewhat fantastic genealogical research the late Queen Victoria became obstinately convinced that her Royal Family is descended from Biblical King David. Today Emperor Power of Trinity is as obstinately convinced that his ancestors sprang from the loins of Biblical King Solomon, son of David. Thus British and Ethiopian royalty would be related by a faint strain of Jewish blood. George V, who does not share his grandmother's enthusiasm for King David as an ancestor, last week let himself be invested by Dr. Martin with the gold chain of the Ethiopian Order of King Solomon, and Queen Mary...
During the Boer War well-fleshed young Lawyer Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi organized an ambulance corps and personally led it under fire to the succor of British troops with such bravery that he received the official thanks of Queen Victoria's Government...
Amid dense fog 50 miles off Victoria, B. C., the liner Niagara carrying wavy-haired Premier Joseph Aloysius ("Honest Joe") Lyons & wife home from King George's Silver Jubilee was in head-on collision last week with another British ship, the freighter King Egbert...
After about an hour, the captains of both ships decided that they were leaking not too badly, limped into Victoria. Thence the Lyons sailed to Seattle where they boarded a special train for San Francisco to catch the fast Matson Liner Mariposa for Australia. Said genial Premier Lyons to Seattle reporters, "I wish you could meet my wife, but she's asleep. She was rather knocked out, you know, by the steamer collision. She'd been up early in the morning to see the scenery, hoping to have a good sleep that night, and that...