Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...missing treasurer's many bank accounts the district attorney finally found the name Ralph M. Wilby scratched on a paper, then scratched out again. The police went looking for Ralph M. Wilby, found him at last in Vancouver, British Columbia. In neighboring Victoria, two New York detectives finally served their man with a bench warrant, charging 17 counts of grand larceny...
...portrait was almost the summation of an epoch. A few months after Sargent finished it, little Osbert heard the village church bells toll for the death of Queen Victoria, and for the "sunset hour of one of the great periodic calms of history." Then he saw his aristocraticelders' lips move in bewilderment. "What shall we do now?" they said...
Under the Gothic pile of Parliament's World War I Victory Tower, two V.C.s met. Both were there to sell Victory Bonds for World War II. They shook hands, parted. One was trim, khakied Major Paul Triquet, who won the Victoria Cross early this year before Ortona (TIME, March 20). The other was little Philip Konowal, whose glory had been forgotten by almost everybody but himself...
Philip Konowal first came to Canada from the Ukraine in 1913 "to get some money." Two years later he enlisted in the Canadian Corps. In 1917, Corporal Konowal killed 52 Germans with rifle, bayonet and grenade in a single day, won the Victoria Cross. Two days later a German bullet scarred his face for life...
Forthright General Pearkes promptly shouldered full responsibility. Said he: "I asked Triquet to come. ... I see nothing humiliating in trying to do my duty in encouraging others to do theirs. I did not win the Victoria Cross by keeping my boots clean at Passchendaele nor has any other officer won that decoration by leaving things to the sergeant major...