Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peter's does in Rome, and one can see it to great advantage from distant open spaces. . . . Many hideous buildings make quite respectable ruins. From the rubble purple willow herb grows luxuriantly, and in one place I know of bracken is sprouting out of sandbags. . . . In Victoria Street a breed of ducklings has grown up comfortably from a nest in the rubble. Above all, for the first time in our lives, there is a sense of space and air in London, and these are the first essentials of all town planning...
...leader of dam-destroying planes over Germany. Possessor of letters patent making her one of five Councilors of State during the King's Mediterranean tour, the Queen said to Gibson: "The King has asked me to say how sorry he is not to be able to give the Victoria Cross to you personally...
...Prince has been married twice, first to Margaret, daughter of Britain's Duke of Connaught and granddaughter of Queen Victoria, who bore him four sons and a daughter. The eldest son and heir apparent to the throne is Prince Gustaf Adolf, a mere youngster of 37 with three charming daughters, Margaretha, Birgitta and Désirée.* The daughter, Ingrid, is married to Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark. The second son, Sigvard, married a commoner. The other two sons, Bertil and Carl Johan, are with the Swedish Navy and Army...
When the Army & Navy took the Circus ("Human Projectile") Zacchinis, her uncle and her brother, Victoria Zacchini, 19, stepped into the breech, flew out of the muzzle of the family's man-shooting cannon, equaled the 200-ft. family record...
Died. Alastair Arthur, 28, Duke of Connaught & Strathearn, great-grandson of Queen Victoria; in Government House, Ottawa, Canada. A member of a Scottish regiment who had served two years with the British Army in Egypt, he was the last of his line; the title ended with...