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Word: chelsea (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is an exceedingly flattering comment, and one can only suppose that our Mr. Cukor knows whereof he speaks, but to which Boston accent does he refor? Is it the long "a" of Beacon Street, the short "a" of Mattapan, the nasal "a" of Chelsea, or the various assorted inflections that are found from Newton to South Boston and from Milton to the Charlestown Navy Yard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Greater Boston's Accents Equal the King's Own Ingleesh, Says Cukor; Who Can Gainsay Him? | 6/13/1934 | See Source »

...Hole Eggs Sirs: Now, sir, will you have your mysteries-with eggs or without them? That Switz spying affair seems to be hard enough for those French gendarmes to unravel, but now-well, let us see what TIME has brought. ". . . Scotland Yard carefully examined the Chelsea, London flat in which the Switzes lived for many months. There they found a new touch of mystery-dozens & dozens of eggshells, carefully blown, with a neat hole in end of each." (TIME, April 2, p. 16.) Now there is a mystery that will make those French Johnnies sit back, take their hats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 23, 1934 | 4/23/1934 | See Source »

...this was news to both Federal agents in New York and Inspector Joseph Donovan of the Criminal Identification Bureau who stated that he had not been asked to make any investigation of the Switzes, their family or their friends. Just to be sure, Scotland Yard carefully examined the Chelsea, London flat in which the Switzes lived for many months. There they found a new touch of mystery-dozens & dozens of eggshells, carefully blown, with a neat hole in one end of each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Eggshells & Espionage | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

Keith Boston--"Coming Out Party." Hollywood's idea of debutantes should thrill the proletariat and amuse the initiated. Dunster House Beacon Street, and Chelsea will like it for strangely differing reasons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Merry-go-Round | 3/15/1934 | See Source »

Keith Boston--"Coming Out Party." Holly wood's idea of debutantes should thrill the proletariat and amuse the initiated. Dunster House, Beacon Street, and Chelsea will like it for strangely differing reasons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Merry-go-Round | 3/14/1934 | See Source »

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