Word: etonian
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...Mail, as Britain's most lurid crime story in years entered a particularly purple phase. For a second week, a three-judge panel in Minehead, a remote town on the Somerset coast, was conducting a magistrate's hearing into charges that Jeremy Thorpe, 49, the dapper, old Etonian Liberal M.P. who had once been one of Britain's fastest rising political stars, had conspired to murder Norman Scott. A sometime male model, Scott had publicly proclaimed that he had once had a homosexual affair with Thorpe. This time, it was Scott's turn to talk...
Cornwell's marital break did not come at once. The first thriller, Call for the Dead, based on the German connection, and A Murder of Quality, with its Etonian background, convinced critics that Le Carré was a real writer, not a civil service dilettante. But the books sold modestly; David Cornwell clung to his true identity and his salary. Upon the publication of his third book, the novelist instructed his accountant to wire in the unlikely event that his bank account reached £20,000. At the time, Cornwell was the father of three growing boys; the magic figure...
...cousin Gwen Raverat in a family memoir describes Darwin on his fourteenth birthday "lying with his long Etonian legs on the sofa in a negligent, grown-up attitude." While at Eton, Darwin engaged in quoting contests to see who knew Pickwick Papers the best. He practiced for these contests by seeing if he could continue out loud once he reached the bottom of a page. Certainly, Darwin would have ascribed to the Duke of Wellington's statement that "the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton," for he considered the English public school, as epitomized...
...example this time was Jeremy Thorpe, 47, for nine years leader of Britain's gadfly Liberal Party and at one time one of the most enterprising figures on the British political scene, a bowler-hatted Etonian who would slog through department stores and cow pastures to greet voters and was a Fleet Street favorite. Yet for more than four months, Thorpe had been politically besieged because of allegations that he had been involved in a homosexual relationship in the early 1960s-a charge that, it gradually became clear, either Thorpe or some of his well-meaning but inept friends...
...Orwell's extraordinary intellectual independence and social concern in the '30s. Critics William Empson and Malcolm Muggeridge provide more personal touches about the last decade of his life. Almost a quarter of the book is pictures. The best, of the saucy boy and the sepulchrally thin young Etonian, are new and fascinating; thereafter the material tends to decline toward portraits of miners, soldiers and literary friends of the author...