Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Playwright Loos's Cinderellative, Actress Hayes is on an acting spree. The portrayer of such moral monuments as Queen Victoria and Harriet Beecher Stowe lets fly with a tipsy tango, bawls through the mike a specially written Rodgers & Hammerstein ditty, cuts up under a table, does a swan dive off a bar, sees bottles light up, hears a cash register strike up a tune. Actress Hayes is hardly a born vaudevillian, but she makes what is clumsy about her also seem comical; and she romps through her new role with the gusto of a paperweight that suddenly finds itself...
Married. The Hon. Patricia Edwina Victoria Mountbatten, 22, great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, elder daughter of Viscount Mountbatten, suave Admiral of the Royal Navy, wartime Supreme Allied Commander in Southeast Asia; and John Ulick Knatchbull, seventh Baron Brabourne, 21, son of the late Governor of Bombay and Bengal; by the Archbishop of Canterbury, in the presence of King George, Queen Elizabeth, the Duchess of Kent, attended by Bridesmaids Princess Elizabeth, Princess Margaret, Princess Alexandra; in Romsey, Hampshire, England...
Like his old father before him, who was Queen Victoria's favorite walker, Bert Couzens cannot keep his feet still. At eleven, he strolled from London to Colchester (about 50 miles); three years later he was fired from his chemist's apprentice job for walking off one day to see friends at Walton-on-the-Naze (about 70 miles). Now 47, Bert Couzens has lately been doing some serious training - 50-mile strolls three times a week-for a man-sized walk...
Ottawa's squatting veterans got rough. Led by fiery half-pint Franklyn Edward Hanratty, president of the Veterans' Housing League, 500 vets and spectators massed in Victoria Park last week, their furniture piled in 20 trucks. In the quiet of the supper hour, they tootled off in search of housing. They made a feint at the well-protected R.C.A.F barracks downtown, then headed for the Navy's wartime barracks - H.M.C.S. Carleton - on Ottawa's outskirts near Dow's Lake...
Hyperbole. In Victoria, B.C., Elsie Hamilton petitioned to have her name changed to Elsie Robin-Cairn Sherly Jane Mitchell Keith-Falconer Hamilton...