Word: etonisms
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...which Red Army officers had invited their British colleagues, the Russians topped off the meal with a batch of rousing Russian folk songs. Asked to reciprocate with some folk songs of their own, the British officers went into an embarrassed huddle. Only song they could think of was the Eton Boating Song, which they promptly boomed out with old school fervor. Impressed, the Russians asked to be taught the words and tune. Soon, weeping in their vodka, the sturdy Muscovites bellowed...
...Yank at Eton (M.G.M.). Timothy Dennis (Mickey Rooney) is as American as Peck's Bad Boy, and a good deal noisier. He did not want to go to Eton, but when his mother (Marta Linden) marries an Englishman (Ian Hunter) Timothy can't escape it. Right off he makes friends with a cute little Lord (Raymond Severn), whom he calls Inky, and an enemy of Ronnie Kenvil (Peter Lawford). Tim's stepbrother Peter (Freddie Bartholomew) tries to arbitrate, but Tim doesn't like Peter either. By the end of term he has democratically banged his head...
...Tall, toothy, socially charming Captain Lyttelton has oversize shoulders and an expanding paunch which he overemphasizes by wearing double-breasted waistcoats. His mother is a Dame of the British Empire. His father was a Cabinet minister. After Eton young Lyttelton went to Cambridge. He married Lady Moira Godolphin Osborne, fourth daughter of the tenth Duke of Leeds. As an Empire businessman trained in London's City, Captain Lyttelton fathered the world tin cartel, became managing director of giant British Metal Corp...
...Cried Laborite Alfred Edwards in a speech at Leeds: "Libya has been lost on the playing fields of Eton. If Rommel had been born in this country he would by now have been a sergeant - not a field marshal. Our tank divisions in Libya have been directed by cavalry officers, not a man being trained in mechanized warfare. Until recently some of them even insisted on wearing their spurs. This is not a joke...
...Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, the Battle of Britain might have to be won on the ploughed fields of an island traditionally never more than a hop, skip & amp; a jump ahead of starvation. Into the fields last week Britain sent all her schoolchildren, rich & poor alike. The farming problem was acute...