Word: chelsea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Milk Run. Whatever the world at large may have thought of Oscar Wilde after his prolonged and sordid trials for sodomy, to young Cyril and Vyvyan Wilde he was a fine father. The greatest figures of pre-Raphaelite London were constant visitors at the house in Tite Street, Chelsea, where Wilde, wittiest and most elegant of them all, held court with his beautiful wife Constance. But it was not the distinguished company that made the house a delight to the young Wildes; it was "the smiling giant, always exquisitely dressed, who crawled about the nursery floor with us and lived...
...Mary's personality and taste were evident throughout the exhibition, from the lacy finery she wore on festive occasions (exhibited on dressmaker's dummies at the entrance) to the staggering array of bibelots that had caught the royal eye. There were finely fashioned items of Chinese jade, Chelsea porcelain, Battersea enamel, Neapolitan piqué (tortoise shell or ivory inlaid with gold or silver), case after case of tiny, exquisite baubles, splendid examples of the jeweler's and goldsmith's art. Of small boxes alone -for snuff, beauty patches, or just for decoration-there were 550, plus...
...Wilbur Chapman, 32, gave birth in Chelsea Naval Hospital to a boy, 4 lb. 6½ oz., only three weeks after she had borne a girl, 3 lb. 14 oz. It was one of the rare cases (TIME, March 16, 1953) of concurrent pregnancies from almost simultaneous conceptions: Thelma Chapman has two wombs...
After nine years of experimenting, Chrysler Corp. last week demonstrated a gas-turbine engine for standard-model passenger cars, the first such engine in the U.S.* The engine, installed in a Plymouth coupe, is now being road-tested at Chrysler's 4,000-acre proving ground near Chelsea, Mich...
...active in exposing and defeating one of the grimier of the State's politicos, former Attorney General Frank Kelly. For this, Trodden was made chief of the criminal division in the new Attorney General's office. Just two weeks ago, he made headlines by leading raids on dens in Chelsea and Fall River which netted almost 100 gamblers...