Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after his most exhausting royal chore since Abyssinia (TIME, Nov. io; 1930). From one end of the Commonwealth to the other, H. R. H. has helped celebrate the 100th anniversary of the day when one Edward Henty landed a stake of cattle, poultry and ploughs in what is now Victoria. Since then Victoria has become the most thickly populated corner (1,818,080) of a Commonwealth that Britain wants to bind to herself by every possible tie of sentiment and advantage. Last week Gloucester finished a fine two-month job of binding, by sending off the first plane...
...jacket of February Hill appears the descriptive blurb: "The story of an amoral New England family." Like most blurbs this one conceals more than it tells about Victoria Lincoln's excellent novel. If the publishers had been looking for a more accurate, though perhaps less cunning, device for gaining publicity they might have called it a study in contrasting morals. It is true that Minna Harris, the strongest character in the book, finds little time to bother herself with moral reflections. She is a June among prostitutes who supports her family on the profits of her popularity among travelling sports...
...imitators (Mr. Aiken, for example) in which the principal character hardly gets a chance to live, so busy is he kept recalling childhood experiences. Mr. O'Hara, in Appointment in Samarra, has employed this technical device to explain the temperament of his hero, Julien English. And here is Victoria Lincoln, following along in what is, by now, a well worn path. Her novel would have suffered little by the omission of Vergil Harris' reveries. I do not contest the truth of the method. I merely suggest that it is not universal outside of novels, and that it is becoming...
...Wilfred Laurier, "Canada's Gladstone," the native son and first French-Canadian Premier who for 15 years governed Canada uninterruptedly under Queen Victoria, King Edward and King George...
...Duke of Kent, kissing her on both cheeks at Victoria Station after first kissing her mother's hand: "I do hope your journey has been good, Mara* dear...