Word: chelseas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neither drum or gun to save them. No one bothered him. Even at Victoria Barracks last week they still did not bother the old man (he was 80). In fact, he was a problem to modern, Socialist Britain-his records, of course, were lost. Someone suggested he go to Chelsea Royal Hospital, but it admits only veterans recommended for good conduct. "How," asked an official contemplating Campbell's case, "can you recommend good conduct...
Burrage, who has written several works on allergy problems, is the chief allergist for the Number One branch of the Veterans Administration and a consultant at the U. S. Navy hospital in Chelsea...
...Generation. In Chelsea, Mass., Miller Mitchell, 14, was just old enough, according to hospital regulations, to go in unescorted when he wanted to visit his 15-year-old wife and baby daughter...
Being a waterman at Chelsea on the Thames was a good way to get to know artists. With its cluttered wharves and shadowy hulls in the mist, Chelsea Reach was a famous painting spot. An old boat maker named Greaves (rhymes with leaves) used to row famed Painter J. M. W. Turner up & down the Reach. Walter Greaves, the boatman's son, painted heraldic devices on his father's boats and, as he grew up, longed for broader canvases. One day in the 1860s, when Walter was in his late teens, he got to know a Chelsea neighbor...
...highlights of the show were not the souvenirs nor the Queen's tureens. Poking about an auctioneer's office in Chelsea, Art Dealer Sidney Sabin had found a dusty, amazingly expert canvas of Christ crowned with thorns. He cleaned it up, found it to be a genuine Van Dyck, and happily toted it to the Fair...