Word: etonian
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...Lordship was making the rounds of his estate. He crushed the loam of his land between his strong fingers and he snuffed the sweet country air. When he passed Virginia Lucie he smiled. She smiled, too. For she was the daughter of an old Etonian whose name was in Who's Who; like thousands of other British girls of high and low birth, she chose to do her bit by working on the land...
...cocktails, wrecking tank treads. After a year of fighting for more armaments and more accent on guerrilla tactics, Wintringham resigned. The War Office, which suspected his politics, was glad to see him go. He was replaced by a safe man-Major General Viscount Bridgeman, the mild-mannered, sharp-eyed Etonian who organized the defense around Dunkirk...
Opening gun was a long letter from an Americanophile, old Etonian and journalist, Philip Hewitt-Myring, which the august London Times played up on its editorial page. Said he: Roosevelt is no dictator, has plenty of opposition in the U.S. Under the circumstances Britain should regard any U.S. aid as a "bonus." "From this fools' paradise, however, in which we supposed that all we have to do is to keep Hitler at bay until American deliveries win the war for us, we must imperatively and immediately depart...
Opposite the Earl was a gentleman who had been his Kenya neighbor since the early '20s. This was spruce, mustachioed Major Sir Henry John Delves ("Sir Jock") Broughton, 57. An old Etonian, he had inherited his ancestral Doddington Park in Cheshire, and a half-million pounds, from a recluse relative. An ardent racing fan, he had served through World War I in the Irish Guards, where he was known as the best card player in the officers' mess. Early in 1940, after 26 years of marriage, Sir Jock had been divorced by Lady Broughton, an avid sportswoman...
Eton College (prep school), on whose playing fields the Battle of Waterloo was said (by the Duke of Wellington) to have been won, was bombed last month. When Etonians explored the ruins, they made a tingling discovery: the famed old "birching block," over which headmasters had birched (i.e., flogged) boys' bottoms for generations, was missing. Although many an Etonian was disposed to let well enough alone, antiquarians searched diligently, eventually found the birching block's remains in a bomb crater. Last week they reverently picked up the pieces, installed them in the Eton Museum...