Word: kensington
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...completely paralyzed, manages to get about London in a wheelchair). Eliot has the simple but expensive habits of an English gentleman (although English gentlemen usually consider him a typically American gentleman). He dresses well, likes claret and good cheese. As a church warden at St. Stephen's in Kensington he performs his duties conscientiously...
Earlier in.the day he had cast his vote at St. Stephen's parish hall, South Kensington, for the Conservative candidate Sir Patrick Spens. Churchill spent election night at home, appeared the next day at his own constituency, Woodford, burdened with a gold-headed cane and a somber mood. Mrs. Churchill was cheerful. She introduced the Labor candidate, young Seymour Hills, to Churchill. Hills grinned a buck-toothed grin and flushed. Said Churchill: "So you're the Labor candidate, are you?" and walked away...