Word: elder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swedish hostess was dumfounded when the adaptable middies, invited to take a dip in her private pool, promptly stripped to the buff and dove in. When she complained to a senior officer, he told her that the boys thought they were following the local custom. In Edinburgh, like their elder brothers in wartime, they had been greeted by street urchins calling "Any gum, chum?" Then came London...
Celibacy Is Better. The most conspicuous Shaker practice was celibacy. Men & women lived separately in communal houses. A Shaker elder once explained to Novelist William Dean Howells: Shakers did not so much believe that marriage was sinful as, with St. Paul, that marriage is good but celibacy is better. To skeptics who wondered what would become of the human race if everybody were a Shaker, a Shaker replied that he failed to see how "the bringing to an end of this wicked world would be a great wrong. Most nominal Christians believe it will come...
...Western Pennsylvania selection for tackle this year following his elder brother's Beaver tracks...
Gertrude Stein's elder brother Leo, now in his 70s, had delivered this book to the publishers before her death (TIME, Aug. 5). If she had lived, it might have provoked her to Steinesque limpidities in reply, for Leo's range of appreciations does not extend to his sister's works, nor to her enthusiasms. Their estrangement was known all over the Left Bank in the '20s, though one day as they passed on a Paris street, Gertrude so far forgot herself as to nod in recognition-and was then so overcome (so the story goes...
...school rules, enforce discipline. and get special privileges. Even young dukes and princes must "fag" (do chores) for older Eton boys. To prove that this system teaches both obedience and leadership. Etonians point proudly to products like the Duke of Wellington,* ten Prime Ministers, including Gladstone, the elder Pitt...