Word: kensington
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sixty plump matrons of Pastor M. B. Lord's Kensington Methodist Church at Berlin, Conn., measured out the substantial token of their esteem for him." (TIME...
Last week's Christian Century reported the novel method by which 60 plump matrons of Pastor M. B. Lord's Kensington Methodist Church at Berlin, Conn., measured out the substantial token of their esteem for him. 'Midst much giggling and chaffing they passed tape measures about one another's waists. Total was 4,114 inches, an average of 68.5666 inches per matron. Unabashed, they gathered together a cent for each girth-inch; gave the $41.14 to their parson...
...Spokane, Professor Olaf Opsjon challenged archaeological skeptics to come and see for themselves the runes on a mossy boulder interpreted by him as recounting a battle between Indians and Norsemen fought in 1010 A. D. (TIME, July 19). Open-minded persons recalled a runestone unearthed 30 years ago near Kensington, Minn., which most experts view as the work of eight Goths (Swedes) and 22 Norsemen in the 14th Century...
...University of London has its business offices in South Kensington, a college in Bloomsbury, two colleges on the Strand. It is as if the University of Chicago were strewn about from Ravenswood to White City and out to Oak Park, or as if Columbia University were dissociated into Bronx, Battery and Brooklyn units...
Engaged. Nicholas Llewellyn Davies, youngest of the four adopted children of famed author-play-wright Sir James Matthew Barrie; to the Hon. Mary Beatrice James, daughter of the noted sportsman Walter John James, third Baron Northbourne. As everyone knows, Mr. Barrie met the four Davies children years ago in Kensington Gardens, and adopted them after the death of their parents. Their mother, Sylvia (Du Maurier) Davies, was the beautiful daughter of famed artist George Du Maurier and a sister of Sir Gerald Du Maurier. She and her children figure in many of Barrie's works. George, the eldest, suggested...