Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interesting history. After he had bashed the heads of his rebellious subjects with it, he waved it for many years over the more peaceable ones as a scepter. In 1874 King Cakobau's war club was presented as a symbol of submission to Queen-Empress Victoria. Tactful King George lately ordered it sent back to Fiji, where His Majesty's Governor Sir Murchison Fletcher of the Fiji Islands last week offered it to the Legislature...
...were crossing the ice from Banks Island to the mainland, the ice broke off. They tried to get to Victoria Island to the east, succeeded in returning to Banks Island...
...which the learned British Association for the Advancement of Science (continuing its York meeting) gave to the subject of cricket bats. Dr. Grace's father, uncle, and four brothers (notably the late great Edward Mills Grace who also was a doctor of medicine) were able cricketers during Queen Victoria's reign. But William Gilbert ("W. G.") Grace was incomparably the world's greatest all-round player the game has ever produced. A huge (6 ft. 2 in.) player, with his bushy, grey beard, dinky red & yellow cap and sometimes cranky disposition, he was as well known...
...will contain a 61-in. telescope, as will the University of Toronto's new Dunlap Observatory. For a half dozen years those will rank as the world's fourth largest instruments, after Carnegie Institution's 100-in. telescope at Mount Wilson, the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory's 72-in. at Victoria, B. C.. Perkins Observatory's 69-in. at Delaware, Ohio. Near Bloemfontein, South Africa Harvard owns a 60-incher. The Harvard observatories at Bloemfontein and Harvard (the town) are practically equidistant from the equator, positions which give Harvard well-nigh perfect opportunity to rake the heavens and amplify patient...
...representative in Denmark. Died. Professor William C. Schluter, 38, able professor of finance in the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance & Commerce; by his own hand (pistol); in Philadelphia. At his death were detectives with a warrant charging him with attempted rape of Negress Victoria Jones, 21. Died. Gerardo Scarpato, 42, Brooklyn racketeer; of strangulation. He was the fifth man to die in supposed reprisal for the murder 18 months ago of Giuseppe ("Joe the Boss") Masseria, onetime head of Unione Sicilione, friend of "Scarface Al" Capone. Masseria was shot to death in Scarpato's restaurant...