Word: etonisms
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...Alexander Cadogan (rhymes with pa-DUG-in) was the guardian of the British Empire, a product of Eton and Oxford, a veteran of four decades in the diplomatic service. Cool, clipped, careful, the former Permanent Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs stayed in the background at open sessions. In closed sessions, he was most firm 'in holding the line against the Russians...
Editor Connolly, 42, who looks like a plump, middle-aged baby, is the grandson of an admiral, and the son of an Army officer. He went to Eton and Balliol, where he studied the classics, served the late Logan Pearsall Smith as secretary and disciple, covered the Spanish war for the New Statesman. Rejected for World War II, he mounted the cultural ramparts instead...
...invasion of England has begun, reported the Eton College Chronicle in alarm. "An army of ill-bred and offensive words . . . spreading from Whitehall," said the Chronicle, "has contaminated our newspapers, whose pages are filled with roving participles and the remains of shattered infinitives...
...Manchester Guardian's able Sir William Haley, director of Reuters, Christopher Chancellor looked like the man. Chancellor was an Eton and Cambridge man who started out as a copyreader in Reuters' London office, spent eight years as correspondent at Shanghai...
Born in Bengal of an Anglo-Indian family, Orwell was a scholarship student at Eton (where he "learned as nearly as possible nothing"), served for five years in Burma as a member of the Indian Imperial Police, fought and was severely wounded in the Spanish Civil War as a member of the P.O.U.M. militia (the loose organization of anti-Stalinist leftists which was fiercely attacked by the Communists...