Word: kensington
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Elst and her anti-capital punishment crusade. This irrepressible lady inherited from her Belgian husband a profitable shaving cream business (Shavex). Fiftyish, she heads three corporations, is a director of twelve. She claims that she sleeps on two hours a night, is never tired. In her swank Kensington home she fondles a fine collection of Oriental objets d'art, hole spiritualist meetings, makes phonograph records of them. Lately she has been untiring in behalf of one Leonard Albert Brigstock, onetime petty officer in His Majesty's Navy, sentenced to hang for slitting the throat of Chief Petty Office...
...professional cricketer; his mother, a lady's maid who rose to be a housekeeper. Young Bertie, after a scattered schooling, started real life as a draper's apprentice. He hated the job, did it badly. He liked school teaching a little better, being a student at the South Kensington Normal School of Science even more. But as a science student he found so many things to interest and annoy him that at the end of three years he flunked, had to go back to teaching once more. A long apprenticeship at freelance writing taught him gradually how to write naturally...
Philadelphia, March 18--Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, administrator of the NRA, was booed today every time his name was mentioned at a meeting of 800 union automobile workers and strikers at the Kensington Labor Lyceum...
...respectable community he considered it his duty to call attention to minor maladjustments, trust to public decency to right them. Time has not made obsolete all of Dickens' complaints but it has seen some of them answered. The open sewer that in his day meandered from Kensington Gardens into the Chelsea slums is there no longer; Dotheboys Hall is now an antique caricature; David Copperfields now toil in grammar schools instead of warehouses...
...Episcopal bishop. For outdoor wear the Church of England bishop affects long gaiters of snug black broadcloth. He is ranked a Lord and so addressed by his flock. But these distinctions have lately seemed irksome to Anglican clergymen. During the Oxford Movement centenary (TIME, July 17). the Bishop of Kensington complained of his gaiters, crying that "100 years have failed to provide us a sensible costume." And last week the Bishop of Bristol told his congregation to cease calling him "My Lord." Declared he: "In the old days, when Bishops were amicable scholars living in dignified ease apart from...