Word: etonisms
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...Prince's education has been a true smorgasbord. In addition to his year of study at Harvard, the Prince attended an Indian primary school, went to Eton and the University of Tokyo, and spent last year on a kibbutz in Israel...
...answers were nervous and he swept back his close-cut hair as if disorder might betray his appearance. His favorite film this year was "If," he said, because it destroyed his false sense of values. He was brought up believing that "men were made on the playing fields of Eton...
...Harry of Monmouth's throne. The rising intensity of sticks beaten rapidly together, a rhythmic tapestry of violence, suggests a neighborhood gang rumble. One knows in one's slightly chilled bones that this war is not going to be fought on the dap pled green fields of Eton but on the harsh black asphalt of a city playground...
...Prime Minister is almost a parody of the ruling gentry class in Northern Ireland. His seat in the Stormont Parliament is virtually hereditary, having been held in succession by his grandmother and father. Educated at Eton, Chichester-Clark served in the Irish Guards and still carries in his left leg shrapnel fragments from the Anzio landing. He owns a 560-acre estate near Londonderry and enjoys gentlemanly pastimes like riding to hounds...
While his Biafra series finally established Churchill as a respected professional, his words have seen print ever since he graduated from Eton in 1959 and took a summer job in New York writing headlines for the Wall Street Journal. He earned a modern-history degree from Oxford, then joined an expedition through the Sahara. That trip led to his first bylined story, which appeared in the London Sunday Express...