Word: kensington
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government that "breaches of the peace are treated by the police as breaches of the peace and not simply as acts of high spirits because they happen to occur among the rich and influential." The question, though it named no names, brought a prompt and unprecedented reply from Kensington Palace. The Duke of Kent, said a palace statement, was indeed at the parties referred to but was "in no way involved" in their fruitier moments...
...Winter's Tale. In London, Architectural Student Patrick Huggins took aim, hit a passing policeman, was fined ?1 ($2.80) for "wantonly discharging a missile, to wit, a snowball, to the damage or danger of persons in Kensington Court...
...Soviet Embassy mansion on London's Kensington Palace Gardens, known locally as "Millionaires' Row," Russia and Japan last week began their first high-level talks since the war. Russian Ambassador Yakov Malik, usually scowly, invited photographers into the Embassy's sacrosanct conference room and smilingly offered a cigarette to the Japanese Ambassador, Shunichi Matsumoto. The Japanese diplomat, who does not smoke, accepted the cigarette and beamed. "Very congenial," said Matsumoto afterwards. "The atmosphere is very warm...
...Kensington studio last week, amid a clutter of cigarette stubs and old paint tubes, Smith was busily working on three or four paintings at once. He is not at all disheartened by the wide spread between his critical and financial successes. His first show sold only four of his paintings for a total of $336, but that was enough to pay for his room in Kensington, his food, an occasional night at the local pub, cigarettes and hardboard (cheaper than canvases) for six months. His second show has sold only three pictures, for $315, to private collectors. Says Smith defiantly...
...TIME'S Feb. 8 article, "A Farmer's Fun": I [do not] claim to have positive proof that Olof Ohman carved the Kensington Stone. The statement given to a reporter by me contained an express disclaimer of my ability or intent to specify the perpetrators of this modern hoax. The requirements of science and the declared purpose and spirit of my investigation were satisfied by a demonstration that the Kensington inscription can be completely explained as a modern fabrication...