Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four days and four nights Prince & Princess Sukhodaya heard music, watched games. Pipe Major William Campbell, proud oldtime piper to Queen Victoria at Balmoral Castle, played them a tune, recalled how he had played for the Prince's father, King Chulalongkorn. Their Majesties took many a picture; their adopted son Prince Chirasakti had two still and two cinecameras slung over his shoulders. They bought small-sized kilts, bonnets and sporrans, thought they would wait until they returned to Bangkok before putting them on. They went to concerts of old Scottish music, heard two ballad-operas. Smoking was forbidden...
Died. Arthur Lyulph Stanley, fifth Baron of Alderley, 55, onetime (1914-20) Governor of Victoria, Australia, who recently resigned from the Liberal party; after a lingering illness; in London...
...twenty-five cents ($.25) par value and 100 shares of preferred stock at one dollar ($1.00) par value. The dividend on the preferred is 12% per annum. The market value of the comnnn at present is eighty cents ($.80). We have two offices in Seattle and one in Victoria...
...Shamrock V heard the cry "Man Overboard" and hove to. But it was too late. Ernest Friend never reached the floating buoy, disappeared. He left behind a widow and four children. King George called off the day's racing and hurried back to the yellow-funneled Victoria & Albert from which Queen Mary had seen the tragedy. All the yachts at Cowes half-masted their flags...
...books that he is spindle-shanked and spectacled, with a long red beard and a falsetto voice. Cousin of the late John St. Loe Strachey, editor of the London Spectator, Lytton Strachey first made a name for himself by writing Landmarks in French Literature (1912); nine years later Queen Victoria made him a bestseller. Unmarried, 51, Strachey lives in London but goes to the country to work; "it isn't so much the noises of London that prevent concentration, but the constant social calls on one's time-the exits and the entrances." Other books: Books and Characters...