Word: twickenham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After his speech there were questions from the floor. One little boy from Twickenham confessed that he had come only because he thought that the union was going to give children the right to have drivers' licenses. Then a boy wearing an Eton-type jacket got up and said: "Sir, if your union does away with corporal punishment, but continues to allow 'lines' [e.g., 100 from Virgil, in a fair round hand], all I can say is that I'd rather have the cane." Copping assured the boy that children should be able to abolish anything...
...Mare received a small pension from the government and has never since needed to live in any world but his own-a country house in Buckinghamshire where his four children grew up, later an apartment in Twickenham...
...took a special delight in puncturing bores, dullards and windbags, with his sharpened, precisely aimed verses. Periodically, during the 200 years since his lifetime, the reading public has rediscovered Pope. To mark the bicentennial of his death, a new five-volume set of his works has been projected (Twickenham Edition of the Poems of Alexander Pope-Methuen & Co., Ltd., London). Some of Pope's packed and pointed lines seem apt as ever in the autumn...