Word: etonisms
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...Albans, founded by monks in 948, is one of England's oldest schools (St. Peter's, York, founded in the 6th Century, is generally regarded as the oldest). Long out-glittered by Eton and Harrow, St. Albans has kept to its modest tradition of service to the boys of the town...
After the war, the question of Leopold and the monarchy rocked Belgium to its commonsensible core. The Socialists were bitterly opposed to Leopold's return, the Catholics strongly in favor. A regency was set up under Leopold's Eton-educated brother Charles, an able, inoffensive prince who is interested in archery. Thanks to Spaak's efforts, the "royal question" was put well back on the shelf...
...Longtime statesman, Eton-&-Oxford-trained Robert Cecil, 54, is better known as Viscount Cranborne (the honorary title he used until he succeeded his father as the Marquess of Salisbury ten months ago). He resigned as Parliamentary Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs (along with his boss Anthony Eden) in protest against appeasement of Italy in 1938. Two years later he returned to office as Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs...
Dress as You Please. Rugby's 620 boys nowadays come mainly from upper-class professional and mercantile families (the peerage prefers Eton and Harrow.). In contrast to the formal Eton attire and classic Eton curriculum, Rugbeians may dress in tweeds, flannels or what they please, take their pick of vocational (woodworking, shorthand) as well as traditional studies...
...little boy waxed-eventually to 6 ft. 3 in. The voice waxed too, and earned for Hugh Dalton the nickname "Booming Bittern." Many a Tory never forgave this product of aristocratic Eton and King's College, Cambridge, for joining the Labor Party after World War I. He was called a traitor to his class. Among Laborites, sarcastic Tory-lasher Dalton won honors, if not complete confidence. During World War II he served first as Minister of Economic Warfare, later as President of the Board of Trade. After the war, Clement Attlee made him Chancellor of the Exchequer, traditionally...