Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...church is that they don't and can't believe what is taught there. Once people believed that they were going to heaven or hell in the same sense that they would get to Manchester if they started from Euston and to Brighton if they went from Victoria. Nothing can revive that belief. Once they believed that Christian principles had something to do with public conduct. But why should . . . anybody . .. expect people to go to church and listen with respect to a priest reading the Sermon on the Mount, when they know that atom bombs are being made...
...enough to make a decent Irishman gag. There she sat, "the ould bitch," on the lawn of Leinster House itself, right in front of the main entrance to the Dail; and there she had been sitting for 41 years. Even worse than the statue of Victoria was the tablet underneath, inscribed from the old Queen's loyal "Irish subjects...
...about time; but some Irishmen would be sorry, in a way. Said one of the deputies last week passing the oxidized Victoria (on which not a penny of public money was ever spent for cleaning): "We were getting quite used to her. And we liked her a lot better since she turned green...
...Rumanians beat the Irish to the crowbars last week by removing from Bucharest's Square of the Republic (formerly Royal Palace Square) the statue of Victoria's contemporary, Carol...
London's Victoria and Albert Museum was once considering the purchase of three drawings by a young Pole named Feliks Topolski. Said one committeeman: "We must draw the line somewhere!" Portraitist Augustus John answered the objection with a crack: "But can you draw the line like Topolski...