Word: victoria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sent the 350,000 customers on its nationwide mailing list a batch of Christmas gift suggestions that range from monogrammed "passports" for pet dogs or cats ($18) to an edible Monopoly set made of several kinds of chocolate ($600), and a Wooton desk that once belonged to Queen Victoria ($150,000). In Manhattan, trendy Bloomingdale's is countering with the perfect gift for the aspiring Truman Capote for $100,000 the store will arrange a holiday party for 500 at New York City's Lincoln Center culture temple that includes cocktails, dinner and a ballet performance...
Artworks depicting scenes of Rhodesian history, both glorious and inglorious, are also experiencing a boom. In Salisbury a package of eight reproductions of sketches showing the discovery of Victoria Falls by David Livingstone currently sells for $32. "They'll fetch thousands in years to come," predicted one optimistic Rhodesian dealer. At an exhibition...
Salisbury last July, Artist Ivan Day-Jones sold out all his paintings of scenes of the brutal racial warfare that has savaged Rhodesia in the past decade. The boom is so great that a number of rare items have been stolen from Salisbury's Queen Victoria Memorial Library. One current bestseller: The Valiant Years, a collection of newspaper stories and headlines from 1890 to the present...
...single lady," explains the royal equerry. Louisa rails at this "conspeyeracy" but bows to sovereign fate and marries Mr. Trotter, the butler (played by Donald Burton with just the right hint of smarminess). The prince sets them up in a London house designed for discreet visits. In quick succession, Victoria dies, the new King finds that he must bow to propriety and stop going out nights, Trotter turns to drink. Louisa buys the Bentinck, a hotel going out at the seams, and returns to the kitchen...
After these high, fast steps, The Duchess of Duke Street hits its stride. The hotel provides a center for succeeding episodes, and a staff of regular characters assembles. There is Mary (Victoria Plucknett), Louisa's adoring assistant, and Major Smith-Barton (Richard Vernon), a guest at the hotel who becomes his landlady's sidekick and confidant. Comic relief appears with Merriman (John Welsh), a teetering old headwaiter, and Starr (John Cater), the imperturbable hall porter. Asked by Louisa during his job interview whether he fought in the Boer War, Starr gazes at her evenly and pauses. "Very possibly," he finally...