Word: etonian
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...making radio interest the ryot is India's Radio Chief Lionel Fielden. Dapper, dark-mustached, youthful Broadcaster Fielden came to Indian radio two years ago from Eton and Oxford by way of B.B.C. What the ryot likes is folk music, drama, dirty stories. What he gets from Etonian Fielden's programs is clean amusement and instruction. The instruction, however, has to be well disguised. Instead of lecturing the ryot on the use of fertilizer, Delhi broadcasts a farce in which Dulari, the peasant, becomes a millionaire. Dulari strikes it rich by spreading his fields with bone manure...
...students), most expensive ($1,225 tuition), most exclusive "public" (i. e., private) school, today is on the defensive, abroad as well as at home. Traditional training ground for Britain's ruling "Gentlemen," it has produced ten Prime Ministers. One-sixth of the members of Commons are old Etonians. But in trade and government service, everywhere, except in Britain's Foreign Office, Etonians are being shouldered out by the products of more plebeian schools. Even those who cherish Eton's traditions most tenderly admit that Eton needs some reforms. A few have been introduced by Eton...
...hats but are allowed to don colored waistcoats and wear flowers in their lapels, to furl their umbrellas as only the members of "Pop" (the exclusive Eton Society) may ordinarily do. But the sophisticated observer last week noticed that there were fewer students about than ever before. Every young Etonian who can, nowadays flees Eton for the Fourth...
...Hurst's Grammar School man, but the great philanthropist himself attended only the village school. Hurst's Grammar School never ranked with Eton, but Nuffield many years ago bought it and converted it into his motor firm's offices. Now he owns it, and no 011 Etonian's son owns Eton. For his home he bought the neighboring manor house. According to Viscount Nuffield: "The only true story in the press blurbs about me is that in 1921 I slashed the prices of all my cars ?100 [$500] when the industry was facing hard times...
Among the famous questions raised and seldom settled by letter-writers in the Times have been : Are there any brains in the British Army? Why isn't British ice cream any better (this was headed "Strawberry or Vanilla?")? Who is the oldest Etonian? What is the derivation of the phrase "cocking the snook" (thumbing the nose...