Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roof Garden of the St. Regis Hotel in Manhattan, the sisters Delacorte -Consuelo, 19, Marianne, 18, and Victoria, 17-made a simultaneous debut under bowers of pink chrysanthemums and boughs of evergreens. Guests at the party -mostly collegians-drank more milk than champagne...
...morning of the wedding, the linotyper, on his way home from work, paused amid the happy, shabby throngs. He answered a question, musingly: "I'm a good trade unionist and a Labor Party man, but the royal family means something. My father saw Victoria once, as close as you and me are now. Those two are getting married-they carry it on. I suppose it's having something steady in your life. And God knows there isn't much that's steady these days...
...nearby Victoria County, a jury trying Vail for Felix's murder freed him in an hour and 35 minutes. Later he was acquitted of killing Domingo. The third case never came to trial. Back in Beeville, 21 leading citizens got up a petition for Vail's ouster. But six months later, Vail was reelected...
Househunters huffed loudly when Philip and Elizabeth were given huge Clarence House, once the London home of Queen Victoria's "sailor son," the Duke of Edinburgh, as an extra residence. Rationed housewives snorted at news stories of visiting royalty wining & dining at public expense. But for many another Londoner, the wedding was a happy excuse to forget personal hardships, to sentimentalize and enjoy again the elaborate and almost forgotten pageantry of royalty on display. "Why, I can feel myself getting excited already," said a City office girl a week before the event...
Britain's aging Queen Victoria, pottering about the halls of Windsor Castle in 1892, came upon a five-year-old boy eating grapes. She gave him a kindly pat on the head, for he was the son of her personal chaplain, Canon J. N. Dalton. "Go away, Queen," shouted the brash little boy, "I'm eating grapes." Unamused, the Queen exclaimed: "What a loud voice that...