Word: etonians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Wearing an old Etonian tie under his red muffler, Britain's 34-year-old Earl of Kinnoull fretfully paced the deck of the trawler Mino which was anchored olf Southampton last week while customs officials nosed around the ship's hold. His Lordship was all ready to sail to Spain with 100 tons of food and $5,000 to aid Madrid's Radical Government. No hidebound aristocrat is Lord Kinnoull. In 1928 he married the daughter of the late Kate Meyrick, London's "Night Club Queen" who was imprisoned five times for selling unlicensed liquor, bribing...
...King Edward's 13-year-old nephew, Viscount Lascelles, elder son of the Princess Royal, Countess of Harewood, reached in his Eton schooldays last week that awful moment at which his Tutor assigned him to "fag" for a senior Etonian. This "fag-master" will expect his tea to be made and his room tidied by Viscount Lascelles who will find his posterior more or less vigorously "swished" with a cane or fives-bat if the toast is burned or the fag-master's cricket boots are improperly cleaned. The King's nephew will most certainly be thus...
...face beet-red, Old Etonian Eden snapped: "Honorable members are making cheap gibes not appropriate here...
...Governor of South Australia in 1928, and since 1934 has been Governor of New South Wales. Thus Premier Lyons, famed as Australia's "Great Compromiser," went as far as Australian public opinion would permit last week in advising His Majesty to appoint as Governor General an Old Etonian, something no Dominion today cares to stomach...
...whole thing is on the knees of the gods," sighed Mr. Eden as he returned to London. Anxious friends thought the old Etonian looked as tired as after his encounters with Hitler and Stalin which put him to bed for a month (TIME, April 1). Just before leaving Paris last week he summed up his conversations with Premier Laval despondently thus: "Oh, we discussed what should be done next, now that what has been done has been done...