Word: etonisms
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Translator Knox, son of a low church Anglican bishop, wrote Latin and Greek epigrams at ten. At Eton he edited the school humorous magazine, The Outsider. At Oxford he was famed for his wit and for the huge, odorous tobacco pouch which won the nickname Cloaca Maxima (principal sewer of ancient Rome). After a few years as Anglican chaplain at Oxford's Trinity College, Knox was converted to Roman Catholicism, ordained to the priesthood. He returned to Oxford as Catholic chaplain, where he has continued to turn out books, witty poems, and anchovy toast for Sunday tea. Discussing...
...Dean had power-in his pen and in his past. Author of 28 books, he was onetime Headmaster of Eton. Conning a mental list of some of his old boys, he wrote them letters inveighing against the threat to Durham's ancient beauty. Old Etonian Viscount Cecil rallied the Old School Ties, roused the bonnets of the House of Lords. In the House of Commons Durham-born Samuel Storey demanded an investigation. Town & Country Planning Minister William Morrison hastily promised...
...social equivalent of the nasty little hairdressers' assistants and boys from schools 'near Eton' and so forth who 'want Mosley' in England. . . . He suffered from sexual anxiety and a sense of impotence and race jealousy, a feeling very common below the Mason and Dixon Line in America...
...Lonsdale, 87, legendary last of an 18th-Century pattern - the swashbuckling, sporting peer; in Oakham, Rutland, England. A vigorous black sheep of one of Britain's noblest families, Lord Lonsdale was born at ugly, Gothic, ancestral Lowther Castle (described by myopic Wordsworth as "that majestic pile"), educated at Eton where he was flogged 32 times. He soon tired of this, joined a circus, toured Switzerland for a year and a half as an acrobat and trick rider, is said to have punched cows in Wyoming, explored Alaska, been either a bandit or vigilante in a Western stagecoach holdup...
Died. Lord Charles Arthur Francis Cavendish, 38, second son of the late (ninth) Duke of Devonshire, husband of famed, U.S.-born onetime dancer Adele Astaire; after long illness; in his hereditary Lismore Castle, County Waterford, Ireland. The tall, high-domed, horse-fancying Eton & Cambridge-man met the musicomedy star (an Omaha brewer's daughter) in the late '20s, married her at his family's rural, palatial "Chatsworth" (Derbyshire) in 1932, soon established her in their cliff-topping Irish pile, complete with salmon stream, 200 rooms and (she said) one bath. Their daughter (1933) and twin sons...