Word: harrowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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People's Father. This is Nehru's first trip to the U.S., although he has traveled much and is no stranger to Western ways. A man who likes to wear a Homburg, Nehru has preferred Western dress since his British schooldays (Harrow as well as Cambridge). This preference is one of the contradictions which once made him write of himself: "I have become a queer mixture of the East and West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere...
With such immemorial tradition began the 555th year of Winchester College, one of Britain's oldest public schools and the prototype of such others as Eton and Harrow. Founded in 1394 by William of Wykeham, Lord Chancellor of England, the school has sailed through all the storms of church & state since the days of Richard II. By building character as well as learning into the make-up of its students (the school motto: "Manners maketh man"), Winchester has turned out a share of statesmen (including Sir Stafford Cripps) and military men (Field Marshal Earl Wavell) as well as literary...
...classmates at Harrow, George Macaulay Trevelyan seemed, as he himself tells it, like "a 'swot' of the worst kind . . . socially [a] misfit . . . a complete muff at cricket, and clumsy at football." He was "wrapped in literary and historical imaginings," and he was also a crashing bore. "I never had dreams of being a general, or a statesman or an engine-driver, like other aspiring children . . . I wanted to be [a] historian...
Iraq's King Feisal II, 14, entered the third form at Harrow, where he will be addressed as Feisal Hussein in class, will use his title only on vacations...
Cradle to Gravestone. Harrods cares for its customers' wants from womb to tomb. It provides their layettes, is their official outfitter for Eton, Harrow and a score of other schools. It delivers their food and wines, handles their banking and insurance, paints their portraits (for ?35), parks and manicures their poodles in basement kennels, and takes care of their funerals-all on credit...