Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CALLED IT CULTURE (272 pp.]-Victoria Case and Robert Ormond Case-Doubleday...
...Authors Victoria and Robert Case (brother & sister) are far from agreeing with Carol Kennicott that Chautauqua was "nothing but wind and chaff and heavy laughter, the laughter of yokels at old jokes, a mirthless and primitive sound like the cries of beasts on a farm." We Called It Culture recalls how cheap and tedious Chautauqua could be at its worst. It also insists that at its best it brought to provincial society a leaven of excitement, entertainment and intellectual stimulus...
...Kilkenny, thought it was too much. "Are you aware," he asked his Tory colleagues, "of the danger of setting a young man down in London with so much money in his pocket?" The House of Commons took a vote and decided that ?40,000 a year was ample for Victoria's Prince Albert...
...background, Canada's northern climate provides natural ice for over half the year and natural skaters from the time youthful natives are old enough to walk. The earliest hockey game on authentic historical record was played on Montreal's Victoria skating rink with two McGill students piloting the opposing teams. The present coach, popular Dave Campbell, is a heavy believer in the farm system for developing talent...
...true great-grandson of methodical Queen Victoria, the Duke had kept a diary. He also had scrapbooks, filled with informal snapshots, many taken with his own Brownie...