Word: etonisms
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...your information, they are not batting tennis balls at Cape Canaveral." To Charlene, the school's insistence that physical and mental education count equally seemed an echo of the old notion ("back in the days of outdoor privies") that Britain won its wars on the playing fields of Eton. "Live in our world of 1960," she urged as she cited such "notoriously poor athletes" as Edison and Einstein. "This might come as a great shock to you, but we are not going to beat the Communist threat with bows and arrows...
...demands of the script. Stephen Aaron has directed it splendidly, creating suspense where appropriate, excitement when needed, interest at all times. He manages with five people convincingly to mobilize the armies of the British Empire for an assault on the Wogs in a last stand for God, Country, and Eton...
...Decca extracted the last yard of mileage out of their hyphens as they joined forces-Fascist and Communist-dedicated to the destruction of aristocracy. Boud, before she met Hitler, insisted on taking her pet rat to debutante balls. With Philip Toynbee (Historian Arnold's son), Decca raided Eton College chapel and decamped with a carload of top hats...
...were even more fantastic than the legend they left behind. Director Donald Hyatt contrasted long, sweeping shots through their chandeliered salons with pointblank stares into the close-set eyes of floating card sharks. Then, from Hawaii to Egypt, the show followed Mark Twain following the innocents abroad, set the Eton-collared little Lord Fauntleroys of late 19th century America against the Huckleberry Finn of then and all time. Like a big frog always about to make a prizewinning jump, Sam Clemens stood out against his background: as a young man with lean cheeks, darkish hair and misleadingly humorless eyes...
...Osborner, his father fired an angry letter to First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, demanding to know whether the boy's last name had influenced the admirals. Convinced that it had, Meyer Blashki renamed himself and his son Evergood, and the boy duly did time at both Eton and Cambridge. But Cambridge and Philip did not long agree, for he finally made up his mind that all he wanted to do was paint...