Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since the days of Victoria and Palmerston has public criticism been leveled against the Crown in Britain. The audience filed out in shocked silence. Newshawks hurried to the platform to interview the Master of University College who presided. Sir Michael Ernest Sadler,* scowling purse-lipped over his doctor's gown, said he: "I consider Mr. Wells's references to the King simply a dark line in the historian's larger contributions about national life...
...neighbors who thought Mrs. Templeton might treat her old mother more generously. It did not greatly disturb Mrs. Harris or Mrs. Templeton. Old Mrs. Harris remembered her big house in Tennessee whence the family had moved West. She took a quiet interest in the doings of her grandchildren, Victoria, Ronald, Adelbert. She was glad when Mrs. Rosen came over from next door to have a chat. When Mrs. Harris felt that she was going to die. she accepted this fact also with the wise fortitude which her daughter and granddaughter would have to await their own senility to acquire...
Last week Hewlett and the King-Emperor were happy. In his favorite dress George V stood on the bridge of the Royal yacht Victoria & Albert, leading out to sea from Weymouth some 60 warboats and 17,000 bluejackets, the entire British Home Fleet. Purpose: sham battle...
With His Majesty on the Victoria & Albert were Edward of Wales and Prince George. During four days of inspection and naval pageantry climaxed by the "battle." human interest was supplied by "Bill." a slavering, snoring bulldog mascot of the Nelson. Because the King patted Bill on the head while inspecting the Nelson, British newsfolk reported with elaborate jocularity that "the crew feel their Bill has been knighted and now call him 'Sir William Bulldog...
...stay with his Aunts Adelaide and Emily, small Compton Mackenzie first came in 1887, Queen Victoria's Jubilee Year. That date he remembers less because of public celebrations than because of The Street's ancient crossing sweeper who one day startled the neighborhood by suddenly shouting, "God save our gracious Queen," and forthwith standing. perched on a pile of gutter sweepings, on his head. He was not the only topsy-turvy thing about The Street. Its houses were all on one side and all their numbers, from 1 to 25, were odd. This gave Mr. Lockett, the grandiose...