Word: sacketts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Churchill performed the miracle of being highly popular while remaining an individual. His Headmaster, the late J. E. C. Welldon, who became Bishop of Calcutta, noted the 14-year-old boy's "love and veneration" for the English language. He quoted Shakespeare by the scene. Canon James William Sackett Tomlin of Canterbury writes: "The one vivid memory that I have of him is [his] darting up during a house debate, against all the rules, before he had been a year in the house, to refute one of his seniors and carry all before him with a magnificent speech...
Died. Frederic Moseley Sackett Jr., 72, onetime (1930-33) U.S. Ambassador to Germany; of heart disease; in Baltimore...