Word: etonian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Belgian Industrialist Philippe Dotrement. Adding a fillip to the occasion was the first appearance as auctioneer of Peter Wilson, the 6-ft. 4-in. chairman of Sotheby's of London, who last year bought out Manhattan's Parke-Bernet. Wilson suavely built up the prices with Etonian aplomb. "You have to act like a croupier in a casino," he had explained beforehand. "Not a flash. Not a flicker...
Twitching Thread. In The Valley of Bones, No. 7 in his series, Powell picks up the life of Nicholas Jenkins, his all-seeing narrator, shortly after the outbreak of World War II; it ends about a year later after the fall of Dunkirk. At 35, Old Etonian Nick is a somewhat overage second lieutenant assigned to backwater posts in Ireland and Wales, where he passes his time studying anti-gas warfare and reading Thackeray's Henry Esmond. The shooting war, which largely flows past him, interests Powell less than its effects on the worm-eaten aristocrats and upper-middle...
...Wiltshire, Labor was heavily favored because of a recent influx of 4,000 industrial workers. It was widely admitted that if the Tories could win here, they would have a real chance in the fall. As it turned out, the Labor candidate, a Bristol schoolteacher, was defeated by Etonian Charles Morrison, 31, who talked welfare issues, visited old people's homes and was aided by no fewer than 14 relations, including his charming wife Sara ("I know you won't believe a word I say about him, but . . ."). More help came from eight Tory backbenchers calling themselves...
...wartime, Major Lord Home was invalided out of the Lanarkshire Yeo manry after only a few months' service, when he contracted spinal tuberculosis. The next two years were to be the crucial period of his life. In bed, encased in a plaster cast, the happy-go-lucky Etonian read deeply and widely, pored over Marx and Lenin in an attempt to understand Russia's long-range goals. (Harold Wilson admits that he never got farther than page 2 of Marx's Das Kapital.) When he was able to return to the House, his spine mended...
...this, ironically, the new Tory Prime Minister can thank Labor M.P. Anthony Wedgwood Benn, whose gallant campaign to shed his father's viscountcy won the nation's support for the law. *Home is the 20th Old Etonian Prime Minister (of 45), and the 13th to have attended Christ Church...