Word: victoria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before actually broadcasting on the air the committee plans to work with Victoria records of their programs in order that they may eliminate errors. Radio popularization and arousal of undergraduate interest in broadcasting are the immediate aims of the committee...
Today, Paderewski's once-golden, once-silver mane is grey and thinning at the top. But he still sports the oversized, low, soft collars and droopy ties that he wore in the time of Queen Victoria. Watery-eyed and frail, but still erect as a ramrod, he now walks with the aid of a stick. Still a natty and very individual dresser, he prefers striped trousers and a white vest for daytime wear. Though his manner in conversation is kindly, dignified and somewhat remote (he speaks English without trace of an accent), his eyes can still flash like...
...condition of good behavior. The British, sentimental about kings and queens, were unofficially advancing the cause of a restoration of the Spanish monarchy. They were said to favor putting Juan, Alfonso XIII's second surviving son, on the throne because: 1) he had a British mother (former Queen Victoria); 2) he was educated in the British Navy...
...William Hall of No. 58 North 16th Street, Harrisburg, Pa. last week rented his old horse-drawn victoria for its quadrennial job: to carry Pennsylvania's Governor to his inaugural. In the rented relic outgoing Governor George Howard Earle and incoming Governor Arthur Horace ("Breaker Boy") James rode to the State Capitol, where Republicans formally retrieved control of the State from the Democrats who held it for four years...
...Romans called the neighboring territory Arabia Felix. Kipling, with a sharper eye for the facts, called Aden "a barrick-stove." It is one of the hottest, most forlorn spots in the British Empire, of which it became a part just a century ago. Its acquisition as Queen Victoria's first colony made the young virgin Queen very happy. She, the Romans and Aden's Governor, Lieut.-Colonel Sir Bernard Rawdon Reilly, who says he likes his rock-ribbed home, share their felicity virtually alone...