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Known to every British schoolboy is the mythical Etonian to whom a statue was erected for shooting his father who wore brown boots on Sunday. Sir H. Walter Gilbey, Bart., famed horseman and gin distiller, is a Harrovian, but he too has his principles...
...pound worth $4 as in a pound worth $4.86." British tourists fussed and fumed as they landed at Manhattan, were offered as low as $3 for a pound by exchange offices on the piers. "A pound is still a pound in England!" stormed one Briton in an Old Etonian tie just off the S. S. Homeric (Britain's "Ship of Splendor"). "I shall carry my pounds home with me! A bit high this, something of a holdup, what?" From London the international firm of Thomas Cook & Son circularized the British Isles with a doleful announcement that the fall...
...will find her hands full with taking her nephew to teashops, grill-rooms, music halls. After the last ball has been bowled at Lord's, she will chaperone at the Eton-Harrow dance at Hurlingham, and Monday send the "nipper" back to school, along with the other small Etonians (under 5 ft. 4 in.) in toppers and truncated jacket, large Etonians in toppers and morning coats; small Harrovians in jackets and straw "boaters," large Harrovians in tails and that same straw headgear which the school wears in all seasons. For the rest of the term-until the last...
...there are no really great feminine poets and artists, while women musicians spend their time playing and singing music written by men. . . . Education exists to prevent people from being vulgar, stupid and ignorant." On one occasion, lecturing to his students, he proved irrefutably that the Almighty is an Old Etonian. When Douglas Fairbanks & Mary Pickford visited England in 1923 and expressed a desire to visit Eton, Dr. Alington said: "Pickford? Fairbanks? Who are they?" Dr. Alington says that by his bedside is a volume of the mystery stories of Valentine Williams, a writer much admired in Britain. Also he reads...
England's Sitwell trio (Osbert, Edith, Sacheverell), sophisticated rather than passionate poets, conceal their artistry beneath Sitwellian artificiality that annoys many a plain person, delights their devotees and themselves. But occasionally, as in Brother Osbert's Dumb-Animal stories, humanity cracks the super-Etonian veneer, sentiment overcomes even a Sitwell and enables him to communicate with...