Word: etonisms
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...British Court is officially at St. James's Palace (named after Eton College's hospital on the site which Henry VIII bought in 1532). Here men are received by George V at levees, ladies being presented at Buckingham Palace, where Their Majesties reside. Thus the Court of St. James's (Palace) is the form in common use. But Subscriber Church is quite right in his citation of the official ruling. Henceforth TIME will use the simpler form. Also for simplicity TIME will continue to call George V "King of England," rather than (officially) "of Great Britain . . . King...
...Theatre. The Greek department assisted; students who took part will be given degree credits. Dr. MacCracken, English scholar and professor, pointed out that many early English plays were written and performed in English schools. Said he: "We are but following the English custom in this, for it was an Eton headmaster, Nicholas Udal, who wrote the first English comedy extant, Roister Doister, four centuries...
Born the fourth son of Irish nobility, Arthur was sent to Eton, where he failed to distinguish himself even on the playing-fields. But he throve in the army, won his spurs in India, was promoted fast. In the Peninsular War he made his reputation, showed that French troops were not invincible. Gradually, methodically he drove Napoleon's armies back to France. A painstaking rather than a brilliant soldier, he worked his men almost as hard as he worked himself. To the daily questions: what time would the staff move and what was there to be for dinner...
...pretty for Penrod, who would have been more accurately represented by Junior Cohgian, the youngster who plays Sam. If ever Hollywood does a story of prep-school life, which is unlikely, Leon Janney would make a perfect lower-form boy attending Sunday evening Chapel in an Eton collar...
...week's end St. Gandhi departed for Eton to address the pink-cheeked, tail-coated Sixth Form...