Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nursery, two small Marryots, Edward and Joe, are feebly pretending to be asleep. A year later, Robert Marryot and Bridges are back from the Boer War. The children, gobbling cake, watch Queen Victoria's funeral from a balcony. By 1908, Bridges and his wife have acquired a pub. Butler Bridges has taken to drinking up the profits and his small daughter Fanny is dancing in the streets. In 1912, Edward Marryot and the daughter of his mother's oldest friend are honeymooning, on the Titanic. In 1914, Joe Marryot is just old enough to get into...
...Author. Although his father was Lord Carnock of Carnock his mother was a Rowan Hamilton of County Down. Perhaps because he has Irish blood in him Harold George Nicolson is not the dyed-in-the-wool traditionalist his heredity and training meant him to be. Besides, his wife is Victoria Sackville-West-who, though one of the Sackvilles of Knole Castle, is a novelist of parts, her influence therefore subversive of public-school tradition. Through the regular mill of Oxford, crammer's school and Foreign Office, Harold Nicolson took his obedient but observant way. He came to have more...
...potent comments on a moot question: Is a hard world harder for women than for men? ¶Narrator of the first story' is Fanny, a shy, embittered woman whose career (she is a writer) is overshadowed by the much flashier success of an old girlhood friend, Victoria., who uses herself as material for love-affairs, her affairs as material for her best-selling books. Victoria is gross, cynical, shrewd; somehow her daughter turns out to be the opposite. She soon sees through her mother, takes her affection to Fanny. When the daughter marries a nice young man, Victoria...
Jack Crawford, No. 1 tennist of Australia: the championship of Victoria 1-6. 6-4, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 in the final against U. S. Champion Ellsworth Vines; on an exhaustingly hot day at Melbourne...
...late Showman Marcus Loew and vice president of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, was touring the world. With him were his attorney, Joseph Rosthal, and Pilot James B. Dickson, oldtime Army flyer. Last week the party was nearing Johannesburg, South Africa, to attend the opening of a new theatre. At Victoria Falls they started to take off from...