Word: kennington
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those who witnessed Batsman Hutton's prodigious whacking at Kennington Oval last week will hand the story down to future generations: how it took the best Australian bowlers three days to get him out; how he was at bat 13½hours, ran 6½ miles; how the mayor of Pudsey sent him a telegram after every 50 runs; how, when he surpassed Don Bradman's record, the game was interrupted, all the players shook his hand, a waiter in tails and white tie scampered onto the field with a drink of lemonade, 30,000 spectators rose...
...King's "rights" on fish taken from his rivers, coal from his Welsh mines. To him belong London's New Gallery and His Majesty's Theatres, Holborn and Criterion restaurants, Carlton Hotel, the southern side of Piccadilly Circus and both sides of Regent Street, pieces of Kennington slums, Finchley, Hampstead, Dalston and swank Carlton House Terrace...
...From a portrait by Eric Kennington. Reproduced from the limited edition of Revolt in the Desert published in London by Jonathan Cape, Ltd. Courtesy of Duttons...
...there, in bronze, sat the late great Author Thomas Hardy. Dorchester was "Casterbridge" in Hardy's Wessex novels Tess of the D'Urbervilles, The Return of the Native. He died near there three years ago (TIME, Jan. 23, 1928). When the monument-designed by Eric Henri Kennington and paid for by the writer's admirers all over the world -was unveiled, Sir James made known an obscure fact about Hardy's life...
...When the child Hardy was born," said he, "the doctor thought him dead and dropped him in a basket. That was an anxious moment for this country. But a woman stepped forward to make sure, and found he was alive. A statue to this woman-Kennington could have done worse than to give us that...