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...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...
...there were not already enough Irishmen in Britain to worry the bobbies, 5,000 more crossed over at week's end for the England-Eire rugby match at Twickenham. A bomb was found on the steamer, some 900 Irishmen were questioned...
...Wandering Jew (Twickenham) presents the cavernous countenance of Conrad Veidt in four different makeups, representing four phases of the tedious life of that legendary Jew who made one of the worst guesses on record. In Jerusalem, Veidt is a rich Jew with a sick wife whom he asks Christ to heal. To his vexation the Messiah (off screen) suggests that he return the woman to the man from whom he stole her. As Christ goes to be crucified, the Jew curses and spits at Him. Condemned to wander the earth, Veidt next turns up during the Crusades. He jousts with...
Only four times since 1871 have Oxford and Cambridge failed to play their annual game of rugby. Last week at Twickenham, before a shivering crowd of 40,000, they played their 58th match. Soon after it started, Oxford ran the ball over for a try (3 points), then kicked goal to convert (2 points). Cambridge snapped back with a try but failed to convert. Desperately Cambridge tried to catch up, but its drop kicks missed by a hair, and Oxford's backs held like iron. The score, 5-to-3, marked Oxford's 27th victory in the series...