Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Betty Grable James and Harry Haag James showed to press photographers for the first time their six-week-old, double pin-uppable Victoria Elizabeth ("Vicky") James...
Grenadier Major William Sidney, son-in-law of Malta's Governor, Field Marshal the Viscount Gort, received the Victoria Cross "for superb courage and utter disregard of danger ... on the Anzio beachhead...
...conscripts who exercise their right to serve in the Americas instead of overseas, the Canadian Army has an ugly name: zombies (living dead men). Last week Canada's Pacific Coast commander, ruddy-faced Major General G. R. Pearkes (rhymes with quirks), who won the Victoria Cross in World War I, called in a World War II V.C. to help arouse a spark of fighting fervor in his zombies...
...heeded the appeal. Unofficially it was said that no more than 500, or less than 3%, had volunteered this month. The incident irritated British Columbians, who are impatient with Ottawa's dilatory manpower policies. Mayor David Howrie of Vernon called Triquet's speech a "prostitution of the Victoria Cross"; Pearkes's plea a "humiliating duty imposed on an old soldier." Snorted Brigadier General Sutherland Brown, D.S.O. (retired) : "The Government hasn't guts enough to come out in the open...
...Princess Elizabeth to the world, on her 18th birthday she becomes Heiress Presumptive to the British throne. Should anything happen to her serious, doting father, King George VI, this mannequin-tall (5 ft. 6½ in.), pretty but not yet handsome girl will become Queen. Her great-great-grandmother, Victoria, reached that estate when she was 27 days past...