Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ross rulers so far (they hold a 999-year lease granted by Queen Victoria) have been benevolent monarchs. Last week King John Clunies-Ross V, 19, was still in England with his mother, Queen Rose, his brother, "Prince" Charles and his sisters, the "Princesses" Elizabeth and Inin. As soon as he can, he will return to his realm to receive the genuflections of his subjects in a crownless coronation ceremony. The kings of Cocos usually wear old straw hats...
...Buckingham Palace, he was delighted at the way Queen Victoria sang his songs ". . . beautifully in tune . . . and with very nice expression. Only where ... it goes down to D and then comes up again . . . she sang D-sharp each time; and because the first two times I gave her the note, the last time, sure enough, she sang D-where it ought to have been D-sharp. But except for this ... it was really charming...
Manuel J. Madden-Victoria Henderson (Brookline...
...signed Princess Elisabeth Solms-Lich, with the notation, "Relative of English Royal Family" (her cousin, she said was the Grand Duke of Hesse, a great grandson of Queen Victoria). With her husband, Otto Vossler, who described himself as Professor at the American Leipzig University, and former Harvard student...
John D. Rockefeller. John D. Rockefeller Sr. was "still a dapper, youngish man with cordial American manners," when Santayana watched Queen Victoria's Jubilee procession with him. But when Santayana visited his friend Charles Augustus Strong (a Rockefeller son-in-law) at Rockefeller's house in Lakewood, N.J., the tycoon had aged, lost his hair, eyebrows and eyelashes, and wore a pepper & salt wig decidedly too small for him. Rockefeller asked him the population of Spain. When Santayana replied 19 million, the old man said thoughtfully, "I must tell them at the office that they...