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Word: frewen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1968-1968
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Kipling's instructions are clear enough: ;'If you can make one heap of all your winnings;/ And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,/ And lose, and start again at your beginnings . . ." Moreton Frewen, Winston Churchill's scapegrace uncle, could do all of this and did, time after time, with astonishingly consistent results. He kept on losing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Empire Bungler | 7/26/1968 | See Source »

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