Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Joseph Stalin had much to celebrate; he also had much to remember. When he was born, the son of a drunken Georgian shoemaker and his peasant wife, Queen Victoria was on the throne, Karl Marx was a penniless scribbler, and the world seemed to find it a good deal easier to tell the difference between right & wrong than it does today. Stalin built an empire of a kind that Victoria could not have visualized even in her nightmares; he forged Marx's foggy philosophy into an iron knife with which to carve the earth; and he swamped mankind with...
While a violent storm lashed British Columbia a fortnight ago, the 101-ton tug George McGregor was returning without tow from Bamberton to Victoria. Rounding Trial Island, near Victoria, she caught the full blast of the gale and the pull of the riptide. The combination was too much. She began to roll, then capsized and sank...
Last week an Indian boy walked into the Victoria Times office, left a scrawled-over sheet of brown wrapping paper, then scurried away. Said his unsigned note: "On Congo River-the witch doctors' law -all small boats have rope on keels-for his men to hold on to when boats upset on rapids. White men do not never learn...
...Excellency the Governor, scanning the sunny skies over Hong Kong, rested his eyes on a reassuring spectacle. A squadron of Spitfires screamed down in mock attack over the blue-green waters of Victoria Harbor. Their target: an aircraft carrier lying at anchor amid a great clutter of cargo junks, sampans and merchant ships from all parts of the world. "If they know we're strong," said Sir Alexander Grantham, referring to Hong Kong's 1,800,000 Chinese, "they...
...absent from the cast, but there is good evidence that she is not the only actress in Italy. Lea Padovani mixes all the called-for emotions successfully in the role of the poor girl, while rich girl Elli Parvo manages to appear callous and concerned at the same time. Victoria Duse, as the angular hero, casts his lot with the good people at the required moment, and portrays the true heroic metamorphosis...