Word: kente
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Horace G. Lunt, 2nd, Denver--Kent School...
Paul B. Kurtz, Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania--South Kent School, South Kent, Connecticut...
William W. Tyng, New York City--Kent School...
Last week, and for a fortnight before, Editor Dawson's volunteer correspondents were engaged in a controversy moderately scandalous for them, but they handled it with their usual decorum and historical perspective. It was started by George L. Massy who wrote from Folkestone in Kent that he was "credibly informed that the reason some ladies stain their finger nails is in order to conceal traces of black blood, otherwise discernible there. Perhaps the knowledge of this may induce ladies not having black blood to refrain from the unsightly and unpleasing habit. It is understood that this habit arose...
...British Government, however, still showed no signs of encouraging the prodigal's return. In a revised list of royal warrants giving merchants the right to say "By Appointment to His Royal Highness So-and-So" Windsor's name was left out, though those of his younger brothers, Kent and Gloucester were both included...