Word: etonian
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Three thousand miles away in the U. S., where there had been much talk of a new Britain run for little men by liberal men, there was some surprise at this choice: a Lordship, a Tory, an old Etonian, a man once associated with Chamberlain and the Cliveden set and that horrid word, appeasement. There were old-fashioned family tie-ups: the only other Foreign Secretary who subsequently became Ambassador to the U. S., Viscount Grey of Fallodon, was Lord Halifax's third cousin, and the man named to succeed him, Anthony Eden, is also his third cousin.* Lord...
...whole series of politician Air Secretaries have bumbled and bungled without getting hurry up aircraft production on half the necessary scale. Churchill set up a new Ministry of Aircraft Production (separate from the Air Ministry headed by an old Etonian, Sir Archibald Sinclair...
England's first serious soldier-poet was discovered last week by Beverley Nichols in the person of a sergeant of the Royal Artillery, a onetime Etonian named A. H. V. Longman. But his Old Age, published in a regimental magazine, will hardly encourage anybody to enlist. Its theme is the disillusion and precocious soul-hardening of Europe's young men. The poem...
Appointed to perform this job was Ronald Hibbert Cross, M. P., 43, an Old Etonian with a War record in the Lancaster Yeomanry and Royal Flying Corps and a public career closely parallel to that of President Viscount ("Czecho-Slovakia") Runciman of the Board of Trade, for which Mr. Cross has been Parliamentary Secretary. By trade a merchant-banker, six-foot Ronald Cross has before now earned personal preferment as high as Vice-Chamberlain of His Majesty's Household in 1937. As lord-master of neutral shipping, he will now be a key war figure, with Viscount Cecil...
Moaned an Etonian two days later in the Personal column of the London Times: Will the numerous Harrovians who, in at tempting to divest a very old Etonian of his trousers, deprived him of two treasured five shilling pieces and a gold safety pin please return one or all to the Army and Navy Club...