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Oct 17, 2008 · The poem is remarkably accomplished for a fifteen-year-old and gives an early glimpse of Churchill’s command of language, his sense of history and his impish humour. It was published in The Harrovian, the Harrow School magazine, fifty years later on 10 December 1940, when the “Famous Old Harrovian” had become quite a celebrity.
Aug 30, 2021 · August 30, 2021. McKay (1880-1948) was born and raised in Jamaica. He emigrated to the United States in 1912 to attend college. He became active in radical politics and wrote “If We Must Die” in reaction to race riots that swept America during the 1919 “Red Scare.”
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Jan 30, 2015 · Churchill: “I don't see why not, young man. You look reasonably fit and healthy.”. Bessie Braddock MP: “Winston, you are drunk, and what's more you are disgustingly drunk.”. Churchill ...
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These are curious times for the elderly. The pandemic demands their years be magnified, their actions restricted. Perhaps a look at the challenges Winston Churchill faced in his own autumn years might provide some perspective and encouragement for those graced with gray. First, the encouragement. Churchill reached the pinnacle of his career, prime ...
Particularly in Churchill’s later years, mental and physical activity were essential. He wrote almost until his final years. “I make my living by my pen and by my tongue,” he declared, and continued writing for years after he left Downing Street. Discovering the muse of painting at 41, he poured himself into the hobby. Not until he was nearing 90 d...
Churchill’s Bestiary by Piers Brendon documents Sir Winston’s relations with the animal kingdom. He treasured the camaraderie of pets. Dogs and cats abounded at Chartwell. At 80 years of age he was given a parakeet named Toby, who became his constant companion for six years—until the budgerigar flew out of an open window in Monte Carlo. Working on ...
Churchill indulged his wanderlust. In later years he visited Sicily, Morocco, Madeira and the French Riviera. He was a guest aboard Aristotle Onassis’ yacht Christina on eight lengthy voyages when he was between 84 and 89 years old. In all his journeys he was fearless. At 58 he was struck and nearly killed by a car in New York. From his hospital be...
Churchill had his challenges. He soldiered through a series of strokes and a broken hip in his final decade. His faith and perspective sharpened with age. “An old and failing life going out on the tide after the allotted span has been spent and after most joys have faded is not a cause for human pity,” he reflected. Although not a practicing church...
Daniel F. Harrington (danielfharrington@yahoo.com), a monthly contributor to The Providence Journal, from which this article was expanded, and president of Chartwell Wealth Management in Rumford, Rhode Island. He thanks Richard Langworth for kind assistance in research and acknowledges Churchill by Himselffor verifying quotations.
Feb 12, 2009 · For more than sixty years he propelled his pen along a path of authorship and journalism in order to support a lifestyle to which he had been born but not sufficiently endowed. He began, while still a lieutenant in the cavalry, with articles from the North West Frontier and a much-acclaimed volume on the Malakand Field Force. He even wrote a ...
Historian, essayist, and sage, Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881) was one of most influential writers of Victorian England. He was born in a small village in Scotland, and was educated in Edinburgh, studying the classics and German. After leaving university, he started to write magazine articles, many on modern German literature.
Jul 14, 2012 · Churchill wasn't born a master orator — he overcame a childhood lisp by practicing enunciation. He understood the power of words early in his career.. As a 23-year-old British soldier in India ...
