Word: etonisms
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...Author Fleming is guilty of using the old school tie as a cultural garrote, it is, fittingly enough, his own. Educated at Eton and Sandhurst, 49-year-old Ian Fleming served in Naval Intelligence during World War II, is now foreign manager of the proper Sunday Times. He is married to the former Lady Rothermere, whose press-lord husband named him as corespondent in a divorce suit in 1952. At Goldeneye, his luxurious Jamaica residence, Clubman Fleming has been host to his convalescing friend, Sir Anthony Eden. His critics find his shockers all the more unspeakable because...
Temperance. In Eton, England, a teacher at strait-laced Eton Public School said in an interview with a visiting American that the well-bred Etonians are permitted neither to smoke nor drink, and -in answer to the question "what about dates?"-said "Certainly, as long as they don't eat too many...
...sturdy, 41-year-old real-estate agent from nearby Burnley named John Parkinson was to hold Rochdale for the Tories. The unexpected element in the race: Britain's long-dormant Liberals, who decided to enter the lists with a candidate of their own. He was Ludovic Kennedy, 38, Eton and Oxford, lecturer on current affairs and latterly a widely known television commentator. Kennedy cut a wide swathe through Rochdale, helped mightily by a glamorous fellow campaigner, his ballerina wife Moira Shearer...
...year these men lived under the guidance of Father Benson, the Vicar of Cowley. Then, on the Feast of St. John the Evangelist in 1866, Father Grafton and Father Prescott, American priests, Father O'Neill, a master of Eton, and Father Benson took the following oath in each other's presence...
...fact, Lord Altrincham is no more to the manner born than Earl Attlee or dozens of other latter-day lords in Britain's Upper House. His father, a journalist and longtime civil servant, did not get his barony until 1945, ten years before his death. His son (Eton, the Guards) is an earnest and articulate advocate of what he calls the New Toryism...