Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...talent was that he sat on a horse well), Nicholas saw himself as a stern 17th century autocrat. Liberalization was dangerous; had not his grandfather, the cautious reformer Alexander II, been assassinated by populists? The Czarina enthusiastically egged on his autocratic posturing, and when her grandmother, Britain's Queen Victoria, wrote tactfully to suggest that a queen must work hard to win the love of her subjects, she replied, "You are mistaken, my dear grandmama...Here we do not need to earn the love of the people. The Russian people revere their Czars as divine beings, from whom all charity...
...felt that the costumes were dubious," said Victoria Harris...
According to Victoria R. Macy, assistant to the house master in Adams, the bust's disappearance from the library was noticed by House Master Robert J. Kiely in the early '90s after he and his wife returned from a sabbatical...
...enjoyed the tycoon life-style to the hilt, operating from Florida's millionaire ghetto on Fisher Island. During the late 1980s, he chartered a jet to fly dozens of friends to a multimillion-dollar party in London to celebrate the launch of his private yacht, modeled after Queen Victoria's. He reportedly gave guests gold coins bearing a likeness of himself wearing a Lord Nelson hat. He has sold off some of his lavish baubles in recent years, but his profligate reputation remains a flaw. In the RJR fight, opponents delighted in propagating the slogan "LeBow...Le Bankrupt. Any questions...
...Reported by Tammerlin Drummond/Miami and Alice Park and Victoria Rainert/New York