Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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England's great families furnish able politicians. Unlike great U. S. families, they also turn out great churchmen. Famed for political leaders is the house of Cecil, whose Lord Burghley served Queen Elizabeth and whose Marquess of Salisbury served Queen Victoria. Four of the great Salisbury's sons went into politics-the late Lord Edward (Egypt), the present Marquess (see p. 13), Lord Hugh (House of Commons), Lord Robert (League of Nations). A fifth son went into the church. Last September U. S. hostesses fluttered, U. S. churchmen threw open their pulpits, at the arrival...
...Line (Oceanic Steam Navigation Co.). John Pierpont Morgan the Elder in 1902 tossed White Star into International Mercantile Marine, his great pot of North Atlantic shipping. For $35,000,000 I. M. M. tossed it out to Lord Kylsant's Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. (chartered by Queen Victoria) in 1926. After towering Lord Kylsant ("Lord of the Seven Seas") was convicted of selling Royal Mail stock with a fraudulent prospectus, White Star bulked large in the scrambled affairs of fallen Royal Mail. Still owed to I. M. M. on the purchase price...
...close as a toucher to it. Her father was religiously fanatical, had Carry baptized in ice-cold water at the age of 11. The result of her ducking brought on "intestinal consumption" which plagued her all her life. Carry's mother suffered the delusion that she was Queen Victoria; Carry's only child died in an asylum. Carry's mental inheritance took the form of megalomania. She was incorrigibly bossy, inherently destructive...
...English readers dislike and distrust such experimenters as James Joyce and David Herbert Lawrence. And many a U. S. reader, Tory if no longer colonial, shares the British dread of untrimmed edges, prefers the clipped formality of more traditional writers. For such tastes Authoresses Rosamond Lehmann, Margaret Kennedy and Victoria Sackville-West (see cols. 2 & 3) offer fine nosegays...
...Passion Spent as if it were a mirror will not find quite the same fascination in Family History. When her latest narrative goes so far as to make skeptical faces at Eton and at Eton's God, conservative readers will have to take comfort in remembering that Victoria Sackville-West's family have lived in 365-room Knole Castle since Queen Elizabeth's days that she is so aristocratic she can safely be allowed a certain latitude in criticizing home truths...