Word: winstons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DAVID BRATTEN Winston-Salem...
While in London, the team visited the House of Commons, saw Winston Churchill and Big Ben, and attended three or four parties each week. The boys stayed at the homes of English families connected with tennis, and played at Wimbledon as honorary members of the All-England Club...
...their soth wedding anniversary, celebrated on the French Riviera, Sir Winston and Lady Churchill received the attentions of an esteeming world: telegrams and letters (from the Queen, the Prime Minister, the President of the U.S.), hampers of flowers, a gallon of 119-year-old cognac, a 25-lb. chocolate cigar. The day was quiet, with a few champagne toasts on the villa terrace; but, as the New York Times editorialized, it was "still another great day in a life that has known much greatness...
...great biography of Marlborough, Winston Churchill spoke of Sarah's "detached, disdainful, modern outlook upon life"; she resembled, he said, the sort of woman busy "in the public and social agitations of our own day." Author Kronenberger seems to agree with that view. "She was not at all, by happy standards, a great woman," he concludes, but she was forever so "inextinguishably herself" that she "persists even now." Moreover, she was like a great landmark in England's history-the last example of a nation that was changing "from a society of thieves to a nation of shopkeepers...
...Great -great -great -great -great -great -grandfather of Sir Winston. -Four times bloody old bitch...