Word: etonian
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...Super-Etonian...
Died. Dr. Robert Seymour Bridges, 85 since 1913 Poet Laureate of England; after a short illness; at his home, Chilswell, Boar's Hill, Oxford. Son of a country 'squire, Etonian, Oxonian, he abandoned medicine for poetry at the age of 37 A classicist and inveterate prosodist, his appointment to succeed Laureate Alfred Austin amazed the literary world-Kipling, Yeats, Masefield, and Hardy were also regarded as candidates. Continually was Laureate Bridges chided for silence, poetical and personal; when he visited the U. S. and denied interviews, one newspaper headlined: KING'S CANARY WON'T CHIRP. Less...
...confused with "The Old Etonian," potent cocktail served at London's Hotel Metropole...
...hobby. Gar Wood now has an income of perhaps $1,000,000 a year, four homes, a fleet of cars, a 15-passenger airplane, a wife and a ten-year-old son. But his is a lonely hobby; Gar Wood is as unbeatable on the water as the Etonian Segrave is on land. He longs for competition...
...Gilbert Frankau, with an old Etonian necktie,* a charming manner with ladies, a gallant War record and a resolute hatred for Socialism. His utterances in the U. S. arent the late British strike were clarion calls to the banner of Premier Baldwin and gave the definite impression that he, Frankau, was one of Baldwin's most important political colleagues and counselors...