Word: kennington
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...business meeting of the National Interscholastic Athletic Association, held after the games, H. L. Kennington, of New England, was elected president for the ensuing year...