Word: etonian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...confused with "The Old Etonian," potent cocktail served at London's Hotel Metropole...
...hobby. Gar Wood now has an income of perhaps $1,000,000 a year, four homes, a fleet of cars, a 15-passenger airplane, a wife and a ten-year-old son. But his is a lonely hobby; Gar Wood is as unbeatable on the water as the Etonian Segrave is on land. He longs for competition...
...Gilbert Frankau, with an old Etonian necktie,* a charming manner with ladies, a gallant War record and a resolute hatred for Socialism. His utterances in the U. S. arent the late British strike were clarion calls to the banner of Premier Baldwin and gave the definite impression that he, Frankau, was one of Baldwin's most important political colleagues and counselors...
...their last teacher. Tombino, large of girth, bright of eye and smile, possesses many of the good things of life and does not intend that his children shall be denied them through want of wit and learning. There is a boy of 17 who can con Vergil with any Etonian. A younger one-"Pedge" he was called-is bound for a medical career. He began by helping Tombino with the veterinary duties of the camp, and later-through Tombino's shrewdness and hospitality-acquired books on the subject from a London publicity-man, an Irishman with a bent...
...race. There was nothing noticeable about these young gentlemen save that half wore the dark blue of Oxford, half the light blue of Cambridge, and that they had more hyphens and initials among them than ordinary folk. There was P. W. Murray-Threipland, for instance, an old Etonian in the bow of the Oxford shell, and M. F. A. Kean, an old Haileyburian, in the Cambridge bow. The stalwart on the Cambridge stroke-thwart was E. C. Hamilton-Russell. The bird-like little coxswain before him had a plain name, J. A. Brown, but J. A. Brown was impressive enough...