Word: sacking
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Bound for Glory. At the Sack Charles One, all weekend...
...Late Show. Starts this week at the Sack Cinema (call theater for times...
...Lewis. But the job is no plum. As an officer of the royal household, a Poet Laureate ranks just above Bargemaster and Keeper of the Swans. By today's devaluated standards, his pay is $122.50 a year, plus $47.25 in lieu of a butt of sack-once part of the traditional stipend...
Last week Britain's literate and near-literate were howling to give the present P.L., Sir John Betjeman, the sack. The reason was the verse he had written on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's reign. It was as if the mother tongue of Shakespeare and Milton had lapsed into baby talk. Betjeman's quatrains palpitated with cliches and such treacly rhymes as people/steeple, dutiful/beautiful and blue/true. Stanza 4 particularly captured the poem's schoolboy earnestness...
...took psychic inventory. I looked in the cupboard, and there were two cans of sardines, marked two for 210. I had 180 in my pocket. That's all I had in the world. There was nowhere to go but up. I put the sardines and the 180 in a sack and said to myself that I'd keep them there. And the next day I got a check for a piece I'd written." Today the coins and cans are mounted in a collage that hangs in Haley's library?an artful reminder of how it feels "hanging in there...