Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is still a good deal of Gay if not gayety left in the piece. There are thieves, beggars, constables and trollops willing to sing and speak with irony of their woes. But the time has been changed from Queen Anne's day to Queen Victoria's. And the spirit of cutpurse abandon has been superseded by an atmosphere which is often sullen, often merely dirtily proletarian, often obscure...
Larger leaves are grown by Victoria cruziana, tropical water-lily with flower buds the size of a head of lettuce, up to 4 ft. in diameter not counting upturned edge. Taking due precautions a light (100 Ib.) person may sit upon them...
Macrobiosian indeed is the "Delhi Durbar" which opens this year's circus. For large-scale panoply purposes the celebration which took place in Old Delhi, India, after crafty Prime Minister Disraeli secured for Queen Victoria the additional title of Empress of India, was reproduced in the Garden with such historic fidelitv that the lead elephant's name was Technocracy. Another one, Lily the Golden, was a massive bulk of gilt bearing a gilded girl. A mighty blaring of brasses followed the pachyderms, from bandsmen geared out in topis like London bobby's caps. Missing were the mahouts...
...years and two weeks ago two white girls, one Ruby Bates and a Mrs. Victoria...
Very much in evidence was her companion, twice-married Mrs. Victoria Price, with whom (and seven white boys) she bummed her way to Chattanooga and back. Mrs. Price says she supports herself & mother on the $13 a month she makes at a Huntsville cotton mill. In court she appeared the last word in cracker chic. She still sticks to her story that the Negroes threw six of her seven white male companions off the train, stripped her, raped her at knife's point...