Word: kensington
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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...
Sharman Douglas, 21-year-old daughter of the U.S. ambassador to the Court of St. James's, and close friend of Princess Margaret, has just finished a secretarial course at a Kensington business college, is a speedy, accurate typist, and can take dictation at 120 words a minute, an official press release from the U.S. embassy in London announced...
...because he was part Jewish. On their wedding day last week, well-wishers by the thousands thronged the streets outside St. James's Palace for a glimpse of the young groom, who met his bride, an ambitious pianist, at a music festival at Aldeburgh. Others flocked to Kensington to mill about the streets outside the bride's own modest third-story flat and to coo at one another over the wonder of this sad-eyed Cinderella who was to marry a king's nephew. So great was the enthusiasm all around that even Henry Honneybun, a bakery...
Neat clusters of condiments ornament the tables in the quiet, tobacco-free dining room of South Kensington's Onslow Court Hotel. There, in a silence broken only by the tinkle of chinaware, an occasional polite belch or a muffled platitude, retired colonels and well-to-do widows dine in respectable isolation without recourse to spirits. One of these was stately Mrs. Olive Henrietta Roberts Durand-Deacon, a widow of 69. She had few close friends at the hotel, but over a period of three years had struck up an acquaintance with a youngish (39) gentleman named John George Haigh...
...year later, said Haigh, "I took . . . the father and mother to the same basement, disposing of them in the same way." In February 1948 he killed the Hendersons, an unidentified woman from Hammersmith, a young man in Kensington and a girl "who said her name was Mary...