Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Than that remote one of the carriage folk.
The Best of Betjeman, and handed it
Despite the lack of encouragement from T. S. Eliot, young Betjeman persisted. He haunted bookshops, became a passionate connoisseur of church architecture, a champion of the Victorian and other obsolescent styles. At Oxford he went through a lot of his father's money but did not get his degree...
And so he, who hated sports, had to take a job at a prep school as cricket master. There ends Summoned by Bells, neither major poetry nor an exceptional life, but a memoir suffused with moving scenes of an older England, a singing recollection of what it was to be...
"I have been tormented with the desire for possession," wrote a languishing millionaire in 1921. "I am still in the position of a young man sitting on the rocks on a fine moonlight night in summer, holding the hand of a pretty girl and having a great desire to kiss...