Word: etonisms
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...Eton, already a hulking, good-natured youngster, he got the inevitable nickname of "Jumbo." Elephants have since become a matter of fascination to him. His children remember that on trips to the zoo he could watch the elephants all day. He admires elephant-foot carpets, likes little ivory jumbos on his desk. Some friends think he has taken on elephant characteristics, among them a stupendous memory. For his headquarters when he commanded Britain's PAI force (Persia & Iraq) he designed an emblem with a rampaging elephant, trunk uplifted...
...Eighth's new chief has long worn the Crusader patch on his shoulder: he had led the Eighth's XXX Corps, its tank spearpoint, all the desert way from El Alamein to Tunis. Son of a Hertfordshire solicitor, product of Eton and the Coldstream Guards, Sir Oliver was thrice wounded in World War I. He fought with World War II's B.E.F. in Flanders, still has a score to pay for Dunkirk...
...Fulbright, whose plan for postwar international cooperation gives Tribune Publisher McCormick ideological chills & fever; OWI's Elmer Davis, whom the Tribune accused of having majored in the "tactic of vilification" while at Oxford; OONR (a Tribune tag meaning "Old Oxonians Not Rhodes Scholars") Marshall Field III (Eton and Cambridge), editor of the Tribune-rivaling Chicago Sun; OONR Henry R. Luce (Hotchkiss, Yale and Oxford), editor of TIME...
Captain Fitzroy was an aristocrat who faithfully followed the path of an upperclass son in politics. Educated at Eton and Sandhurst, he entered the House as Conservative Member for South Northamptonshire in 1900. He was wounded at Ypres in 1914, elected Speaker in 1928. The Scotsman justly called him: "An impartial president over debate, the guardian of the privileges of the House, the protector of minorities, and the defender of freedom of speech." Death came at 73, in the severely blitzed 50-room Speaker's House, directly beneath...
...Polish magazine commissioned Topolski to draw the ceremonies of King George V's Silver Jubilee. Topolski was so fascinated by such English institutions as pubs, the Derby and the Eton & Harrow cricket match that he stayed on, published a book of satirical drawings appreciatively lampooning Britain's pomps and humors. With the enthusiastic support of famed British Painter Augustus Edwin John, London's ultra-conservative Victoria & Albert Museum purchased three Topolski drawings. Only one member of the Museum's committee objected-on the ground that they were the work of a too young foreigner. The committeeman...