Friday, 2 August 2013

First a smudge of smoke, then the long cigar


The old man puffed into sight like a venerable battlewagon pressing up over the horizon. First a smudge of smoke, then the long cigar, then the familiar, stoop-shouldered hulk that a generation has come to know as the silhouette of greatness.
- Of Winston Churchill disembarking from the Queen Mary, Time, US news periodical, 14 January 1952

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