Word: kensington
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...success that he began putting his own picture on the currency he printed. Husky, 26-year-old Elphinstone Forest Gilmour was not a counterfeiter but a student of entomology whose interest in his subject earned him the right to prowl at will among the 13 million beetles in South Kensington's Natural History Museum. Gilmour joined the Royal Entomological Society, wrote for the society's journal a knowing discourse on a black and yellow beetle called Tmesisternus laterimaculatus. He boasted that the beetle was "unique in my own collection...
...played often in England, where he has long been a leader in the unimpressive field of British pianists, but it really took World War II to bring Solomon out. When he was not touring for the troops, he worked as an air-raid warden in his district of Kensington, fighting fires, digging out bomb victims, pausing only after the night's work to look at his hands...
...criteria," says 40-year-old Artist Osbert Lancaster, the urbanely acid political cartoonist of London's Daily Express, "remain firmly Anglo-Saxon . . . [My] standards of judgment are always those of an Anglican graduate of Oxford with a taste for architecture, turned cartoonist, approaching middle age and living in Kensington...
...TIME'S imaginary correspondent] found Sir Edward's Kensington flat filled with books, by no means scientific only. He is a great reader of Victorian novels, and of Trollope and Dickens especially. 'And what about detective stories?' I asked. 'Why, of course, two or three a week, especially by women authors, who have got male authors beaten in this branch of fiction...
...Lady Appleton, dark brown hair and handsome, runs her Kensington flat singlehanded. She has traveled widely with her husband within the last three years. 'I always seem to be packing,' she said, 'and I hope this will be the last occasion...