Word: etonian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many a Briton shares Dr. Flexner's disdain. "Not one Etonian or Harrovian in a thousand," wrote University of Liverpool Professor Edgar Allison Peers, "would consider entering a shabby modern university, unlovely in appearance, unmellowed by tradition, and attended by men who actually live with their families and probably have only the faintest idea of the respective significance of a dinner jacket and a white waistcoat...
...Etonian who won a first class in modern history at Oxford, Sir Gladwyn has a Tudor manor house (Bramfield Hall) in Suffolk, built about 1550 and, as he says, "modernized in 1790." His wife Cynthia is a daughter of the late Sir Saxton Noble. His son Miles is now at Oxford. His daughters, Vanessa (18) and Stella (15), bear the names of the 18th Century ladyloves of Jonathan Swift...
...Etonian & the Plumbers. Unlike Professor Lattimore, Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey, His Britannic Majesty's Secretary of State for War, was for years an open and eloquent Communist spokesman (after a brief partnership with Sir Oswald Mosley, who became a fascist). Ever since his appointment, which drew violent protests from part of the British press (TIME, March 13), U.S. officials have been worrying about Strachey's reliability. Last week, from the Western Defense Ministers' conference at The Hague, came a sensational story: U.S. Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson had told British Defense Minister Emanuel Shinwell...
...British press huffed & puffed indignantly about U.S. interference in British affairs, reminded the U.S. that Old Etonian Strachey had publicly broken with the Reds in 1940, had since spoken and written against Russian-style Communism (he once fondly described it as a "movement for better plumbing"). Yet as late as 1944, in a book called Socialism Looks Forward (a careful revision of an earlier work), John Strachey still displayed rhapsodic admiration for Soviet Russia-as well as incredible misinformation about it. In a chapter called "I Have Seen the Future and It Works,"* Strachey wrote: ". . . You can argue forever...