Word: skylark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when the U.S. National Institute of Arts and Letters gave Hodgson a $1,000 prize, and again in 1954, when Britain's Queen Elizabeth awarded him the Gold Medal for Poetry. Why Hodgson? In London last month came the best answer: a 96-page book entitled The Skylark and Other Poems. It was the second major book published by forgotten Poet Hodgson, 87, in a long life of deeper privacy than most poets ever dream of. Strangest part of his story: for 19 years Poet Hodgson has lived in the U.S. in a shabby farmhouse on the side...
...seen since Dotheboys Hall. By confession and the cane, the clerical masters rule a cowed proletariat of boys and a middle class of lay masters. Dev may hand out "nippers" (cane on the hand) to his boys when they muck up a stanza from Shelley's To a Skylark or cannot explain the meaning of the Feast of Lupercal (a Roman fertility rite*), but he walks in fear of Father Alphonsus McSwiney, Dean of Discipline, a clerical careerist and bully whose belief it is that "no boy [is] stouter than a good cane" and that a man is, after...
CONVAIR GOLDEN ARROW jet transport will go into production with initial orders for 40 planes totaling $200 million. Trans World Airlines will buy 30, Delta Airlines will take another ten of the four-jet, medium-range (3,000 miles) airliner. Originally named Skylark (TIME, April 23), new jetliner will cruise at 600 m.p.h. (slightly faster than bigger Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8) with 80 passengers, go into service late...
JUNIOR JETLINERS will touch off a hot new sales race among planemakers. After Convair's announcement of its 600 m.p.h. Skylark (TIME, March 12), both Boeing (with a scaled-down 707) and Douglas (with a DC-9) are planning to build jetliners to carry 50 to 90 passengers on hops as short as 300 miles. Estimated price: around $3,000,000 per plane, or some $1,500,000 cheaper than the long-range jets already on order...
...poker game with his City Club cronies in the afternoon. He lives in a relatively modest red brick corner house, with a three-car garage. In the garage: his wife's Buick Roadmaster convertible, daughter Dorothy Anne's Buick Century convertible, and his personal, flashy Buick Skylark convertible, now being hopped up with a new experimental engine and transmission...