Quote of the day
Good authors, too, who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose —
Anything goes.
Arnold Lunn
Born: April 18, 1888
Died: June 2, 1974 (aged 86)
Bio: Sir Arnold Henry Moore Lunn was a skier, mountaineer and writer. He was knighted for "services to British Skiing and Anglo-Swiss relations" in 1952.
Known for:
- The Harrovians (1913)
- Christian counter-attack (1969)
- Alpine ski-ing at all heights and seasons (1921)
- A Saint in the Slave Trade: Peter Claver (1581-1654) (1935)
- The Alps