Word: brixton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pictures appeared as the result of her discovery by a sharp-eyed prison surgeon in Brixton Jail, where the callipygian captain was temporarily detained a fortnight ago on a charge of bankruptcy. One of the most fetching of these pictures (see below), shows her wearing the collar of an officer in the Legion of Honor, while across the scarlet bosom of her mess jacket dangle the British D.S.O.; the Star of Mons, the Cross of a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, and the Belgian Croix de Guerre with palm...
Unable to pay a judgment assessed by a London court, last week, Reception Clerk Barker submitted quietly to arrest for "contempt of court," and was driven in a patrol wagon to Brixton Prison for males. After scrutinizing Transvestite Barker, the prison surgeon ordered her transferred to Holloway Jail for females. Some 24 hours later the Bankruptcy Court ordered her release, and she left Holloway Jail in women's clothes by a side entrance, thus escaping the peering eyes of a vulgar throng of at least 1,000 male and female Britons, most of whose vocabularies do not even yet contain...
...Olive Schreiner, but married before she did. His wife was Edith Lees, an able, ubiquitous worker for feminism and the proletariat. They exchanged a single vow?never to deceive?and insured their love against familiarity by living apart six months of the year. Ellis made his headquarters in a Brixton flat, where he abides today, aged 67, in the shy philosophical detachment that he has preserved for 30 years to speculate upon how to make life a whole thing?...