Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...imperious autocrat of Argentina's intellectual life is a woman. Now 54, tall, tailored Victoria Ocampo has been her country's acknowledged "Queen of Letters" for nearly a quarter of a century.* As essayist, she speaks for the old traditions: the French-speaking aristocrat reluctant to cut the cord to Europe. As editor, she speaks for tomorrow: the new and national literature for which Argentina strives...
Only the snobbish, opulent, Paris-loving aristocracy of Argentina could have produced Victoria Ocampo. Her wealth is based on the feudal holdings of her estanciero ancestors. She was educated in Paris, writes in French, then translates into Spanish. She can quote Racine by the yard...
This week Major John Weir Foote, heroic "Padre X," who won a Victoria Cross at Dieppe (TIME, Feb. 25) was to sail from Halifax on a special mission: he would take the bones back with him to France, see them ceremoniously buried in a cemetery near Falaise. Said an official statement...
...June 1940 that soldierly Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, Earl of Athlone (known to his older sister, Queen Mary, as "Algie") and his small, handsome wife, Princess Alice (granddaughter of Queen Victoria) took up residence in Government House. For five wartime years the Governor General and his Lady had quietly impressed themselves on Canadian life, performing viceregal duties with impeccable style and unfailing good manners...
...victorious animals tossed all bits, nose rings, dog chains and castrating knives down the well. Then they tiptoed into the farmhouse, gazed with awe at the luxury of feather mattresses, the Brussels carpet and a lithograph of Queen Victoria. The animals voted unanimously that the farmhouse should be preserved as a museum. Some hams, found hanging in the kitchen, were reverently buried...