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Word: victorias (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Queen Victoria did not say, we were amused, very much amused, at the University Theatre last night when we strolled in to see Ed Brendel play "Mr. Lemon of Orange". There was every reason why we should have been. If Edward Cantor, Esquire, designs the dialogue things are fated to happen to one's abdominal district, whence the human laugh is said to find its being. And when a Swede speaks English, even though it is really an American making an entirely successful attempt to speak Anglo-Swedish, one rejoices unrestrained...

Author: By J. A. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/23/1931 | See Source »

...eager neighbors. The first bottle was sold in 1875. When Lydia got the idea of printing her picture with the ad, she soon became best known woman in the U. S. Pictures in newspaper offices were scarce; Lydia Pinkham's portrait often doubled for such stars as Queen Victoria, Actress Lily Langtry. But "Lydia never uttered a word of protest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vegetable Compound | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...capital's bon ton, no easy feat. Back in the U. S., she shared her husband's political set-back in 1892 when he was defeated for the vice-presidency. Five years later she went with him to England when he was special ambassador to Queen Victoria's Jubilee. Again, when an-other touch of U. S. swank was needed, the Reids were sent to the coronation of Edward VII. In 1905 President Roosevelt made Whitelaw Reid Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, first-ranking U. S. diplomatic post. In London the Reids were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Death of a Great Lady | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

...Bourbon monarchs 138 years ago, welcomed the King & Queen of Spain exuberantly last week. Dapper Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe had his bowler hat pushed over his eyes several times by ecstatic French and Spanish Royalists be- fore the Biarritz express pulled into the Gare d'Orléans. Queen Victoria Eugenie wept again at the unexpected welcome. Nine months ago the Prince of the Asturias, heir to the throne, arrived jauntily in Paris, apparently entirely cured of his haemophilia (easy bleeding) but the strain of the past fortnight was too much for him. White-jacketed attendants carried him from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Red, Purple & Yellow | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

...plus $1,300 worth of medical supplies last week for Rev. K. N. Tvedt; but Mongolian bandits let Rev. Allie Godfrey Lindholm of the Scandinavian Alliance Mission go cheap for $600. Murdered recently by discharged Chinese servants at Yunnanfu were two Seventh Day Adventlst missionary-wives, Mrs. Victoria Marion Miller & Mrs. Vera Mosebar White...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Spring Comes to Chiang Kai-shek | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

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