Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dropped all regular business to cry "Shame! Shame! The liberty of a British subject has been violated!" when Home Secretary Sir John Gilmour tried clumsily to defend three Scotland Yard detectives who had mistakenly seized a small and wholly innocent subject of George V just outside Victoria Station...
...Queen Victoria's time Southampton began to put out its claw in earnest. Dredges deepened the harbor. In 1892 the then London & South Western Railway took over the docks, so that by 1914 Southampton was No. 1 port of embarkation for Britain's armies. Last week Southamptonites, now eager for the title of world's No. 1 port, felt they were getting somewhere when King George came to open what Britain claims to be the world's biggest dry dock (1,200 ft. long by 135 ft. wide at the entrance...
Visits of reigning sovereigns to Britain are rarer than they once were, but the red carpet was down at Victoria Station last week, and in full uniform King George. Edward of Wales, the Duke of Gloucester and most of the Cabinet in levee dress stood on it waiting for a train. The train pulled in, and out stepped white-chinned King Feisal of Irak, who had been escorted across the Channel by four British destroyers, met at Dover by the Duke of York. Reporters admired his gleaming white tunic and his golden spurs. Guns banged a royal salute, and Kings...
Boss of Britain. Sure to dominate many a Conference session, if not eventually the Conference, is that mighty mover behind British Cabinet scenes, lean, taciturn, iron-willed Arthur Neville Chamberlain, son of one of Queen Victoria's greatest Ministers (orchid-boutonnièred "Old Joe"), today Chancellor of his Majesty's Exchequer...
...Warrior's Husband (Fox-Lasky) is a farce about the Amazons, somewhat in the manner popularized by John Erskine. It shows them happily inhabiting a country where the men-mostly effeminate or superannuated-have the social position usually ascribed to ladies in the age of Victoria. Handsome young Antiope (Elissa Landi), assistant general of the Amazon army, is incredulous when told that Greek troops, all males, are threatening the Amazon capital. Her sister, Queen Hippolyta (Marjorie Rambeau) is amazed when one of her counselors suggests that she try the unheard of experiment of marriage. She ridicules the idea...