Word: chelsea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rumpled Beds. For his teacher's fashionable Chelsea haunts, young Sickert substituted a series of battered studio digs in north and central London. There he sketched and painted scenes of British low life with a gusto and an eye for beauty in squalor that rivaled Degas and Lautrec. Like Lautrec, he doted on the dramatic lighting and rowdy shenanigans of turn-of-the-century music halls. He also liked to paint outdoors...
...night a fortnight ago, Allen Kaplan of Chelsea, Mass. piled into a car with a group of his chums at Northwestern State College in Natchitoches, La. and headed for Grand Ecore Bluff, a remote lovers' lane along the high banks of the Red River. Their supposed purpose: to meet a "hot date" the upperclassmen had fixed up for 18-year-old Freshman Kaplan. They parked the car. Suddenly, as the upperclassmen had planned, another student, impersonating an outraged husband, jumped from behind some bushes and fired a shotgun. The group scattered on the run. The upperclassmen made their...
...Chelsea, Mass, court, a lawyer argued that his bookmaker client was helping to save the U.S. from Communism by contributing "to the equalization of the democratic way of life by letting poor people place small bets...
Anxioulsy, McGhie rushed down to the Boston Capital. Clerks apparently played along with the ruse, and the freshman ran in turn to the offices of the National Guard, Public Lands, after calling newspapers and radio stations, McGhie tried the Chelsea fire department...
...Chelsea's last major fire was in 1912," said the chief, "when the whole town burned down...