Word: etonian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...learns to decipher dates on cornerstones, and in the seventh or eighth, if he is clever, he is able to read the Satyricon. The randy classic, which deals with a kind of conjugation untouched by grammars, has been nibbled at on the sly by headmasters and bishops; one old Etonian boasted that he had four editions and thought it "rather a gesture'' to keep his best one, bound in clerical black, on his pew at chapel...
Wearing his Eton tie and an English suit darned at the knee, Burgess called on another Etonian, his old classmate Randolph Churchill, one of the visiting British newsmen, who was disconsolately staying at Moscow's Hotel National. Burgess, now stocky, florid, and with greying hair, seemed fidgety but in good health. His mission was to ask Churchill's help in appealing to someone in the Macmillan party for a safe-conduct that would enable Burgess to visit his sick 70-year-old mother in England. Churchill refused (another British correspondent, over a Scotch, promised to make inquiries...
...conscience home, he was soon to find, in the unemployed of the Depression, the least of breeds within the law. The industrial North impressed him as the dark side of a lunar slagheap landscape on which Empire's sun had set. After Orwell turned to socialism - an Old-Etonian socialist who was prepared to be serious about it was a rare thing in those days -he was quickly tapped for great things in the world of left-wing propaganda. He went on his pilgrimage to the poor on commission from the influential Left Book Club, run by a notable...
...flexible term, usually critical, for the British ruling class's ruling class, e.g., the Archbishop of Canterbury and all Anglican bishops, certain peers with long bloodlines, top civil servants, Etonian Tories, staunch monarchists, and Times leader writers, all of whom together constitute what has been called "the old-boy circuit" or "the stately domes of England...
Second Choice. Macmillan's choice of stooped, spectacled Derick Heathcoat Amory as Thorneycroft's successor was well calculated to reassure the financial community if any man could. A shy, reticent Etonian who was wounded and captured while fighting with Britain's paratrooping Red Devils at Arnhem during World War II, Heathcoat Amory is a successful businessman who has helped make his family textile company one of Britain's most progressive. A staunch friend of the U.S. and an enthusiastic champion of the European free trade area, he has earned wide respect for his ability in administering...