Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While a German plane rocked a merchantman with bombs, Britain's only seagoing woman engineer ran the engine room singlehanded, haloed with escaping steam and showered with black fuel oil. So George VI presented the Most. Excellent Order of the British Empire to gaunt, nerveless Victoria Drummond, 42. a British Fascist Oswald Mosley, interned in London's Brixton Prison, began taking German lessons. / / Antanas Smefona, self-exiled President of Lithuania, discovered living with his wife in a log cabin near Benton Harbor, Mich., is still ecstatic over America's good roads and standard of living. / / Private Hank...
They Met in Bombay (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) awards frog-voiced Clark Gable the Victoria Cross. This fast-and-loose play with Great Britain's most coveted decoration is not likely to please the British or amuse Americans. How the decoration comes about is very...
...Hugh Dalton, Minister of Economic Warfare. Once at a children's party, Queen Victoria, who was "tottering" around, patting children on the head, reached "the infant Dalton" and asked: "And whose little darling are you?" Lisped Hugh: "I'm Queen Victoria's little darling." He is not Author Strauss's little darling...
Three years ago Traveler FitzPatrick met a Chicago newspaper woman. They married and for their honeymoon the couple selected one of the few sight-seeing spots the bridegroom had never visited: Niagara Falls, Land of Newlyweds. Now 39, father of two, FitzPatrick has a small "self-sustaining" island near Victoria, B.C., and a consuming desire to make feature pictures. War or no war, he no longer cares to roam, says plaintively: "Now I get homesick...
Last week, for the first time in World War II, an Indian was awarded the coveted Victoria Cross, which goes only to performers of most extraordinarily courageous exploits in action. The exploit...