Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week, in his modest Queen Victoria Road bungalow, the tall, prim-mouthed, high-domed intellectual worked and conferred. He accepted no social engagements. Rising shortly after 7, he donned an ill-fitting suit and high stiff collar, breakfasted lightly at 8, then spent several hours conferring with his staff, writing dispatches, seeing the press. Except for a 25-minute break for lunch, he interviewed Indian leaders from midmorning until 8 p.m. He met them on the porch, led them through the large-pillared hall to his study, offered them cigarets and then got down to business. After dinner and more...
...tell the same story about Washington that Barry's last vehicle told about Philadelphia. Miss Hepburn, rich daughter of a deceased senator and young widow of a man she had loved with a love to end all loves, is living in her Washington mansion the way Queen victoria lived in Windsor Castle after Vincent Price died. Eliot Nugent, sworn off of love since his best girl ditched him in Paris, is in our nation's capital trying to solve the "Irish question." Nugent gets into Hepburn's mansion (i.e, on stage) by taking her drunken cousin home from a wedding...
Professor Daly received his B.A. from Victoria University, Toronto, in 1891. In 1912 he was made Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, and lately has had charge of much of the graduate work in Geology...
Halifax is a salt-rimed sailor's town, dependent on the sea for its livelihood, on war for boom prosperity. But Halifax also has a Calvinist moral attitude; Haligonians still squirm when historians recall that Queen Victoria's father flaunted his pretty mistress, Julie, in the face of Halifax society...
...Lang even stood up to Queen Victoria. While he was vicar of Portsea, the largest parish in England, with twelve curates under him, she told him a good wife would be more help than any six curates. "If I have a curate I do not like," he replied, "I can sack him. But I couldn't sack a wife." Forty years later his views on sacking a husband cost Victoria's great grandson the throne...