Word: victoria
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Another board member, Victoria Judson, said she favor granting at least seven of the ten permits in return for the River-Harvard St. land. "I want to set up a system where we are encouraging them to build low and moderate income housing," she said...
Alex and I are drinking in a bar in Little Australia, a section of Taipei near the Ambassador Hotel where Australian businessmen go to drink, carouse, hire prostitutes. The bars have names like Victoria Pub. The Ploughman, the Waltzing Matilda. Alex, who is New York Chinese, looks around us at the beaming, red faces of drunken Australians and observes that there is nothing in the whole goddamn place that's written in Chinese. We decide we have to do something very Taiwanese the next day. We take a bus to White Sand Bay, one of two sandy beaches...
Championship Doubles: P. Walter and B. Ford of Victoria City R.C., Canada...
...bubbled over at the prospect of restoring the old theater where she and such "dear friends" as Jack Benny, Tallulah Bankhead and Beatrice Lillie once played. She was no less pleased with the day's festivities. "This party looks like the 19th century," said the onetime star of Victoria Regina. So, sartorially speaking...
They're not rioting in the streets of Sherbrooke or burning buildings in Victoria. They're not building up an extensive military arsenal in the nation's capital or steeling themselves for struggle in the rural towns. Instead, Canada is undergoing a quiet revolution, with the country's leader trying to "patriate" the constitution and the provincial premiers attempting to thwart at all cost a peculiar brand of federalism...