Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unfavorable winds hold back the tide on the appointed day there may not be enough water in the Clyde to launch their monster. Launching or no launching. Queen Mary, resolute as King Canute, planned last week to crack her bottle on Sept. 26, will cry "I christen thee Victoria...
Divorced, Thelma Victoria Maud Colman, English actress; from Ronald Colman, 43, cinemactor (The White Sister, Beau Geste, Bulldog Drummond), after a ten-year separation; in London...
...month Her Majesty Queen Mary will travel north to the Clyde there to launch a 73,000-ton monster which in 1936 will take away the Normandie's crown of size. And the name which Queen Mary will cry as she whangs the bottle, will not be Britannia, but Victoria...
...Yukon Territory, was the place to go for gold. As the summer neared its close the trail from the fields down through White Pass to the Alaskan port of Skagway was a jostling procession of prospectors. On Aug. 13 the Islander, 240-ft. pride of the Skagway-Victoria Line, steamed out of port with a 61-man crew, 108 passengers, a dozen stowaways, began threading its way through the narrow straits. At 2 a. m., when most of the passengers had reeled off to bed, the Islander hit something with a mighty impact, sank off Douglas Island...
...women. Beside George V. who wore the Scots Greys' scarlet and gold, Queen Mary convexed majestically in a gown of silver and pastel pink lace upon which blazed the 106-carat Koh-i-nor. Scots gossips twittered that before King Edward set the present style for London courts. Queen Victoria used to hold drawing rooms "when her Mistress of the Robes was the present Duke of Buccleuch's mother...