Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...duty toward a good piece of work, likeable or not. When she finally got into the part she fell in love with it. She feel so hard that the Director Siodmak, whose worries about Hayes Office approval must have been a little like a man wondering how Queen Victoria would take to an off color joke, had to tone down her performance. But despite all precautions, Miss Fitzgerald's salvation from limbo gleams handsomely through the Hays...
Died. Sir Bernard Partridge, 83, mustachioed, meticulous, mid-Victorian chief cartoonist of Britain's famed Punch, who faithfully pen-& -inked 20th Century faces from Queen Victoria through the Kaiser (109 appearances) to Hitler (more than 120); in London...
Married. Prince Georg Wilhelm Christof of Prussia, 33, grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II, great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria; and Lady Brigid Katherine Rachel Guinness, 25, youngest daughter of the Earl of Iveagh, Dublin brewer; in Hadham, Hertfordshire, England...
...Asquith, longtime society enfant terrible; after a brief illness; in London. Her gossipy books (More or Less about Myself, Off the Record) about famed friends and enemies never violated her premise that "reticence is dull reading." Her lifetime of audacities included writing a note in pencil to Queen Victoria, declining to stay at a dinner party despite King Edward's request, staging a fashion show at No. 10 Downing Street...
London's red-brick Church House, a relic of Queen Victoria's jubilee and once a haven for the bombed-out House of Commons, was being readied for another transient tenant...