Word: kensington
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...King George's dream is to sell Buckingham Palace and with the money to reconstruct Kensington Palace as a town residence...
WOLFE (Humbert) Kensington Gardens. Mint...
...London, Crown Prince Mihai spent a few exciting days. He went to the South Kensington Science Museum, drove a fire-engine, was allowed to warm up the engine of one of his mother's cars, had tea in Buckingham Palace. Suddenly King Carol cancelled the rest of his son's vacation, ordered him back to Bucharest. Princess Helen motored her son down to Dover, bade him a tearful farewell. "I'll try to telephone you, mummy, but they won't let me," he cried...
...poor dwelling. The tapping of the sacculi and the bleeding caused considerable soiling of the abdominal contents, and water was used freely from a pitcher to cleanse the abdominal viscera. After all was over, we sent across the street for the steelyards belonging to a butcher in the Kensington market [Philadelphia]. The whole multilocular cystic mass with the accumulated fluids tipped the scales at 132 pounds. As soon as the weighing was completed, a nurse dumped everything down a privy well. The tub weighed 16 pounds, leaving a weight of 116 pounds (52.6 Kg.) for the tumor. It has occurred...
...police reporter in St. Louis grew too irksome for William Carroll Woodward he engaged in more interesting pursuits. Before he was 37 years old he had been arrested 37 times, but had been in prison only twice. Gaining skill, he went to London, opened a gaudy gaming place in Kensington, and as "The Honorable Lionel Musgrave, United States Senator," collected $800,000 from British sportsmen before he found it wise to depart. In Ceylon his fame spread when he swindled an Indian jewel merchant out of a basket of gems worth $250,000. In 1913, before Philadelphia police closed...