"send her victorious",

This one used to puzzle me as well, Marty. At the age of five, I had just discovered that the delicious fruits that appear on the trees in late September are known as Victoria Plums, so I wondered why King George VI needed despatches of this fruit from his grateful subjects when, surely, he had scads of them on the trees that I had seen at Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace.


I also used to hear "Poetry in motiom . . " as "Like a tree in motion . . " - which almost made sense!