Word: stogdon
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...face of such transparent manliness, most of Harrow could forgive young Churchill nearly everything. Writes Vicar Edgar Stogdon of Harrow, who was at school with young Churchill: "If your mother wrote to ask if she could come down to see you, you told her what hat to wear, and if her figure was beyond the accepted standard, you suggested postponement. . . . Mr. Winston Churchill invited his old nurse down ... to her intense happiness; she arrived in an old poke bonnet, her figure had attained ample proportions, and Mr. Churchill walked arm-in-arm with her in the street! It is about...
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