Word: stet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hands down on both knees, leaning forward, all interest. He has presence. He is tall, handsome and prematurely white-haired. The color of his hair, and his quick rise to position, long ago gave him a nickname, not always spoken in jest: the White-Haired Boy. (Other nicknames: Little Stet, Mr. Statistics, Junior...
Last week many Old Harrovians fondly grunted Harrow's Stet Fortuna Domus as they leafed through just the kind of book that Old Harrovians like. Put together by other Old Harrovians, bound in deep Harrovian blue, it was called Winston Churchill and Harrow, Memories of the Prime Minister's Schooldays...
...writes that he has been told that often "on occasions when affairs looked overblack, Mr. Churchill . . . would sing an appropriate verse or two from one of the [Harrow] songs and then get back to business." Recently the Harrovians have given Old Harrovian Churchill a new stanza to the old Stet Fortuna Domus to sing if he wishes...