Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Police rounded up "a fair number" of the 24,000 Japanese on the coast, while Naval authorities decommissioned 1,000 Japanese fishing boats by removing their carburetors. Vancouver had three blackouts, the first of which sent 30 traffic accident victims to the hospital. The mayor of Victoria panicked the citizens by declaring: "The Japanese are off the Aleutian Islands. We expect them here any time. The situation is very serious...
...week wore on, no slant-eyed invaders menaced Victoria. The one Japanese qualified to vote in the Vancouver civic elections solemnly cast his ballot unmolested. Factories which had canceled night shifts went back to work. Like most of the world, Canada's west coast was getting down to the nasty business...
...toughest keyboard workouts of all time: 1) Stravinsky's "Sonata" from his ballet score Petrouchka; 2) Rudepoema, a ferocious tonal portrait of Rubinstein by Brazilian Heitor Villa-Lobos, whom the pianist helped launch. Rubinstein's tremendous digital attack once wrecked a piano of the late Queen Victoria, at a performance for the present Duke of Windsor...
...Queen Victoria commuted Florrie's sentence to life imprisonment...
...Queen Victoria's yard-wide linen chemises and a pair of her stockings went on sale in Manhattan for British War Relief. ∙∙On tiptoe stood King George (5 ft. ii in.) in London, stretched up, pinned a Distinguished Flying Cross on 6 ft. 7 in. Flight Lieutenant Roger Hunter. ∙∙ Naval Reserve Lieut. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. reported for active duty in Boston, was assigned to public relations work. ∙∙ Private Abner Powell Jr., Joe Louis' sparring partner, arrived at Camp Upton, L.I., sighed happily: "I'm kind of glad to get away from...