Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York divorcée whose engagement to another great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria's had just been announced. Her name alone was enough to make Mayfair gasp-it was Mrs. Simpson. This time, however, there was no danger that a romance would rock a throne. Romaine Simpson had no connection with Wally, Duchess of Windsor. Her fiance, handsome David Michael Mountbatten, did not have to ask his cousin George's permission to marry. The Marriage Act makes an exception of the offspring of princesses who marry into foreign families. Milford Haven's royal great-grandmother...
Attendant Harvards, enjoying a happy one to one ratio, felt that the fall term had really begun as they danced to the official PBH victoria, quaffed the famous PBH punch, and lounged with their partners on the luxurious PBH couches...
...late summer days the Book-of-the-Month Club has chosen this breezy tale about a seven-year-old ragamuffin who wandered into Queen Victoria's dining room one evening, and thereby briefly set the Empire on its ear. Since it appears that something like this did happen once upon a time, Author Bonnet's job in The Mudlark was to fluff up the fact into a light historical novel. This, with the help of a lot of imaginary speeches and caperings by the Queen, William Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli, he has done well enough...
Clouds of Faith. In 1850, all England wept over In Memoriam, Emily Sellwood consented, after twelve years, to marry him, and Queen Victoria made him Laureate. Thereafter until his death in 1892, Alfred Tennyson gave the profession of poetry a public dignity that it has never had since...
...fight announcer ("Tiger is fighting back! He throws a left - a right - another left. Now he's bringing a right uppercut from the floor - now they're bringing Tiger up from the floor."). She played every character in a "Pageant of American Womanhood" that included Queen Victoria, Florence Nightingale and a hilarious Joan of Arc, as well as such authentic native daughters as Barbara Frietchie, Ruby Foo and Miriam, the mother of Irium. As Pocahontas ("better-known by her Indian name, Alka-Seltzer"), Ethel Merman tomahawked a marauding redskin who was stalking Captain John Smith. "Like George Washington...