Word: etonisms
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...previous volumes Left Hand, Right Hand and The Scarlet Tree, the dark patches in the tapestry are family matters: the confused tyrannies of the writer's puttering father, the rages and tragic secrecies of his Plantagenet mother. Sir Osbert himself was 19 in 1911, free at last from Eton, but not free from Sir George Sitwell's fuzzy determination to make him a cavalryman. One gentle burlesque that makes this book vivid is Sir Osbert's memory of cavalry training at Aldershot...
...England, was vacationing in the south of France. Set in rapid motion by the crisis, he "dipped down" in Britain for a quick check with Whitehall and the Bank of England's headquarters in Thread-needle Street, arrived in the U.S. unshaven and with his old school tie (Eton's black with narrow light blue stripes) holding up his pants (see cut). Not even the Old Etonian belt could disguise the fact that this flurried arrival departed from the tradition of the British Treasury and the Bank of England. Ties as belts were not normal Threadneedle wear. Britain...
...Doge of Venice . . . studded with jewels . . . and a swastika of gleaming pearls. . . ." Himmler, deluded to the end, maintained a "school of eager researchers [who] studied . . . Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry, the symbolism of the suppression of the harp in Ulster, and the occult significance of Gothic pinnacles and top-hats at Eton." Hitler himself sometimes rose from his "modest supper of vegetable pie and distilled water to prance upon the table and identify himself with the great conquerors of the past...
...Pray, Sir," Said the Prince. Unlike tradition-bound Eton and Harrow, Gordonstoun, established in 1934 in a castle on the cliff-girt coast of Morayshire, bristled with progressive education. There, aristocratic young Britons were taught to forget class distinctions and live like hemen. Every morning before breakfast they took long hikes, climbed hills or practiced javelin-throwing...
...Actually, Eton is nearly 507 years old; it was founded in 1440 by Henry VI, but Old Etonians were too busy in wartime 1940 to celebrate. *Who probably never said in so many words that "the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton." There were no organized cricket or football playing fields in Wellington's day. He did say: "I really believe I owe my state of enterprise to the tricks I used to play in the garden [of Eton...