Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cargill had time for one more ship experiment, the 12,500-ton tanker, Victoria, which was completed in the Albany yard in 1941, sold to Argentina in time to become the first Argentine ship torpedoed in World War II. The Victoria did not sink. She was torpedoed in what was thought to be the engine room, just under the stack, but the stack was a phony. The engine room was somewhere else...
...point system, rationing only one portrait to each subject. But the sitter was permitted to choose the famous painting he wished to be dubbed into. Harpo Marx was painted as Gainsborough's Blue Boy, Charlie McCarthy as Hals's Laughing Cavalier, W. C. Fields as Queen Victoria. Prices for these efforts sometimes ran up to $1,000. Says Decker (who suffers from ulcers and diabetes): "An artist doesn't earn a living until after he's dead. People buy his stuff and then hope he'll die pretty soon so the pictures will be worth...
Virtue. The paper-chases, parlor games and mechanical pianos of the most bourgeois Court, barring Victoria's, of a bourgeois century, did not make Eugenie a happy woman. So, like many another disenchanted housewife, Eugenie went in for good works with her sleeves up. She was a tremendously energetic, genuinely intrepid woman, and her conduct during a cholera epidemic endeared her to the public. And at a time when Frenchwomen were 80% illiterate, she did work of permanent value for the education...
...week-long celebration in honor of the anniversary was opened last Saturday as the WAVES marched from the Victoria Hotel to the Hatch Memorial Shell while the Blue Network gave the Esplanade concert in their honor a coast-to-coast hookup...
...unlawful for the women of the Junta de la Victoria to meet and knit sweaters. The General Confederation of Labor (150,000 members), Argentine equivalent of the A.F. of L., was disbanded. Charge: "Communist infiltration...