Word: chelsea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ticket taker at Melbourne's Flinders Street station is apt to be a shawled Lithuanian woman who speaks no English at all. In the heart of Sydney's roistering Kings Cross district, now a maze of cosmopolite cuisine and chatter, Old Australians crowd into the posh Chelsea restaurant to be attended by an Italian headwaiter, a French chef, Hungarian, Czech, Yugoslav and Bulgarian waiters. A Melbourne food store that once sold two kinds of bread-dark or white-now sells 97 varieties...
...Chelsea police station later, continued Chambers, Podola "looked very pitiful. His behavior was odd." Police Surgeon John Shanahan testified that when he examined Podola then, "it was impossible to make contact with him." Other police doctors told how Podola gradually began to recover, and even to volunteer remembered bits, e.g., a memory picture of a woman called Ruth, and a child called Micky he believed was theirs. Noting signs of Podola's "withdrawal," one doctor said that Podola "liked to keep near the wall when he moved along the corridor." "It is an accepted thing that distinguished scholars like...
Among the middle class, people often worry more about where they live than how. Says London House Agent Roy Brooks: "I have no trouble selling for thousands of pounds matchbox houses in Chelsea and Knightsbridge that cost only hundreds to build. I can get people to spend fabulously for a mean little house because a princess once used the lavatory there. Even sensible businessmen act like superstitious peasants in responding to the magic of a 'good' address...
...London, Buckingham Palace felt moved to formally deny that the frolicsome Duke of Edinburgh, attending a flower show in Chelsea, had pressed a button that set off a lawn sprinkler, doused two hapless photographers. But some newspapers kept pointing the finger of guilt at Philip. Snarled a London Herald byliner: "I still believe the Duke dunnit...
...first arts, is having a renaissance after a century-long decline. Begun when a handful of ceramists retreated to their studios in self-conscious revolt against the standardization of machine-tooled objects, the renaissance is now in full swing from Manhattan's Greenwich Village to London's Chelsea, with thousands of potters pumping their wheels and smudging their smocks as they "throw" the wet spinning clay. One of the most indefatigable sponsors of the revival is Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts Director Anna Olmsted, who launched a series of national ceramic shows in 1932, this year invited entries...