Word: etonian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Best of the lot, and favorite of old Grandpa Jarrold, was his widowed daughter-in-law, Evelyn. She enjoyed her position, her wealth, her adored son Dan's adoration-even her widowhood, until she met Miles Vane-Merrick. Miles was an aristocratic but land-poor farmer, an Old Etonian but intelligent and unconventional, Member of Parliament but a Laborite. And he fell in love with her though he was young enough to be her nephew. Conventional as only a bourgeoise could be, Evelyn knew she was ruining herself by becoming his mistress. But she would not marry...
...China assumed that this order was what Japan and Old Etonian Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson had put over-that it was Japan's secret price for agreeing to evacuate. Raging mad, prominent Chinese sent telegrams from Peiping, Tientsin, Canton, Hankow and Shanghai demanding that the Chinese Government at Nanking resign, accusing its members of "betraying China...
Known to every British schoolboy is the mythical Etonian to whom a statue was erected for shooting his father who wore brown boots on Sunday. Sir H. Walter Gilbey, Bart., famed horseman and gin distiller, is a Harrovian, but he too has his principles...
...pound worth $4 as in a pound worth $4.86." British tourists fussed and fumed as they landed at Manhattan, were offered as low as $3 for a pound by exchange offices on the piers. "A pound is still a pound in England!" stormed one Briton in an Old Etonian tie just off the S. S. Homeric (Britain's "Ship of Splendor"). "I shall carry my pounds home with me! A bit high this, something of a holdup, what?" From London the international firm of Thomas Cook & Son circularized the British Isles with a doleful announcement that the fall...
...there are no really great feminine poets and artists, while women musicians spend their time playing and singing music written by men. . . . Education exists to prevent people from being vulgar, stupid and ignorant." On one occasion, lecturing to his students, he proved irrefutably that the Almighty is an Old Etonian. When Douglas Fairbanks & Mary Pickford visited England in 1923 and expressed a desire to visit Eton, Dr. Alington said: "Pickford? Fairbanks? Who are they?" Dr. Alington says that by his bedside is a volume of the mystery stories of Valentine Williams, a writer much admired in Britain. Also he reads...