Word: harrower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...showered with favors and crowned with laurels, without any apparent exertion on his part. He appeared honorably ineligible for the struggle of life." At Christ Church College, Oxford, Home could not earn his blue at cricket, never matching his brilliant 66 on a sticky wicket for Eton against Harrow. He caught Neville Chamberlain's eye and became his parliamentary private secretary-only to suffer obloquy later for having ridden with Chamberlain through the cheering crowds at Munich. In the 1945 Labor landslide, he even managed to lose his family's "safe" Parliament seat in Lanarkshire...
Dunce's Revenge. Nobody fits Goertzel's findings better than Winston Church ill, who despised his tutor-governess, was sent off at seven to St. James's School, where at nine he had a physical breakdown from trying to buck the system. Churchill was Harrow's bottom scholar (and spent years mastering English while others went on to Greek and Latin). He twice failed Sandhurst's entrance exams, barely passed on his third...
Even through the war years, Sir Winston Churchill always made his annual appearance at his old school of Harrow to be acclaimed as its most honored living Old Boy. His only absence since 1940 came four years ago, when he was downed by a bad cold. Some 650 young Harrovians last week serenaded him as is the custom, once again brought a proud smile to Sir Winston's face as they sang the Latin words of May Fortune Stay with the House, including the line, "Churchill's name shall win again...
...Delhi to pack for his trip to the U.N. General Assembly this week. Behind him he left a vapor trail of the oldtime Nehru rhetoric. To correspondents he stressed the great similarity in "texture" between the culture of northern India and West Pakistan, with an old Harrow boy's knowledge of English poets quoted Samuel Taylor Coleridge to explain the peculiar persistence of Indian-Pakistani bitterness: "To be wroth with one we love/Doth work like madness in the brain...
Looking mighty like a man-and the spitting image of his older brother, King Hussein of Jordan-Prince Hassan, 13, deplaned at London Airport with his mother, Queen Mother Zaine, for the start of school. The natty young prince will attend Harrow, which Winston Churchill attended 68 years ago, and where Hussein matriculated for a year, made the soccer and rugby teams before moving on to Sandhurst...