Word: kensington
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ways to have any truck with newfangled sandbags and gum-papered windows, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, 91, eldest living daughter of Queen Victoria, stuck to her 98-room Kensington Palace apartment in air-vulnerable London. Once known as the "Royal Rebel" for marrying against her mother's wishes, for smoking cheap gaspers, for many another unregal trick, she condescended to such precautions as dark blue window-blinds, an underground tunnel near the kitchen...
...Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross were Flying Officers K. C. Doran, who led the raid on the Kiel Canal, and A. McPherson, who scouted for it; T. M. Wetherall Smith and John Barrett, who landed in heavy seas to rescue the crew of the torpedoed Kensington Court. To Sergeant Pilot W. E. Willits, who brought his ship out of a dive and landed it after the first pilot had been killed by a bullet, the King gave the Distinguished Flying Medal (for non-Commissioned officers). Eldest of the medalists was 26, youngest...
Before the communion rail in St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Philadelphia's grimy Kensington industrial district last week knelt 80 out-of-work hosiery workers. They joined curly-haired Rector David Carl Colony in a prayer of thanksgiving. They listened to his sermon: "Remember . . . you have not arrived by yourselves but with the help...
Last week Chemists Arthur Steinberg & William Redman Brown of Philadelphia's Kensington Hospital for Women proudly set out for Toronto to tell the American Physiological Society about their amazing new discovery: oxalic acid for rapid coagulation of blood. But when the young chemists got to Toronto, they were scientifically hissed & booed. Reason: oxalic acid, a common cleaning fluid and ink remover, is used by physicians in a derivative form to prevent coagulation of blood for transfusions. It was impossible, said the scoffing physiologists for an anticoagulant to produce coagulation...
...prevent them. The British Government have tacitly been part of the Opposition, which argues that a subsidized theatre means bad plays. But a private committee headed by George Bernard Shaw has at last raised $750,000 and spent half of it buying a site in London's South Kensington, far from the theatre district. Last week, on the eve of Shakespeare's birthday (April 23), before a crowd of nearly 1,000, including U. S. Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, Mr. Shaw formally accepted the deeds to the site, remarked: "I suppose you have had me here today...