Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world less likely to be moved by "one impulse from a vernal wood" than by a burst from a bazooka, Author Laurence Housman (Victoria Regina) has seen fit to issue a new selection of the poems of William Wordsworth...
...does the British, was openly scornful of both. The Moslem League, he said, had won electoral advantages during the war by stooping to aid Britain. "Do I think the British are sincere," he asked, "in their promise to leave India? They have been making promises ever since Queen Victoria's time, and they have always broken them...
...stillness of the Victoria and Albert Museum, in a crowd peering at the works of Matisse and Picasso, she clapped sharply for attention, gathered a little crowd about her, and began a speech. These paintings, she said, were: 1) "the product of diseased minds"; 2) "garbage masquerading as art"; 3) a racket imposed on the public. From her hearers, reported PM, came a warm spatter of applause...
...Switzerland, the third son of the late Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, Prince Adalbert of Prussia, his wife Princess Adelaide, and his vivacious daughter Princess Victoria Marina,have changed residence from one resort hotel to another, at the request of the management of the first hotel...
...Brenda Diana Duff Frazier ("Glamor Girl") Kelly, 24, whose raven-haired, cream-smooth beauty helped to make her 1938's No. 1 debutante; and John Sims ("Shipwreck") Kelly, 35, onetime part-owner of professional football's Brooklyn Dodgers: their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Brenda Victoria. Weight...