Word: victorias
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...turf-covered plain near Delhi, a splendid assemblage gathered Jan. 1, 1877. The High Officers and Ruling Chiefs of India took their seats behind a gilt railing in an amphitheater of blue, white, gold and red, to hear Queen Victoria proclaimed first Empress of India. They rose to their feet as a flourish of trumpets announced the arrival, across 800 feet of red carpet, of His Excellency the Viceroy, Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Second Baron Lytton. The proclamation was read, the Royal Standard was hoisted, and artillery fired a grand salute of 101 salvos. Mixed bands played God Save...
...Read obediently took a job in the Treasury-and quickly discovered that "dear Coleridge" had been talking through his hat. Nonetheless, every night for years Read fought his tired brain, turned out poems and essays. Finally, he found a more congenial job as a curator of ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum...
Died. Ex-Sergeant John Hannah, V.C., 25, R.A.F. hero, one of the youngest soldiers ever to receive Britain's highest decoration, the Victoria Cross; of tuberculosis; in London...
From Halifax to Victoria there were outraged cries. Canada's heroine of the year, Figure Skater Barbara Ann Scott, had been maligned, and to a man Canadians leaped to the rescue of their starry-eyed sweetheart...
...movement spread. In Victoria, 200 beardless demonstrators stormed the legislature building, entering noisily and irreverently by the gate reserved for the Governor General and Lieutenant Governor. "We want five-cent bars," they chanted. In several cities some stores hurriedly cut prices to five or six cents...