Word: etonisms
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...Oval, one of London's two great cricket grounds, is no longer used for cricketing; but Lords, where the Oxford-Cambridge, Eton-Harrow matches were always played, is planning to open its season on May 2 with plenty of service matches and a few between schools...
...rational caution. There could be few better examples of this typical British temper than Scottish Viceroy Linlithgow. He is a model of sober British effort, often suspected of misunderstanding, frequently attended by friction. Son of Australia's first Governor-General, he was born to great wealth, went to Eton, served throughout World War I, thereafter specialized in agriculture. In 1926-28 he traveled exhaustively in India as Chairman of the Royal Commission on Indian Agriculture. Later he served on the Parliamentary committee which formulated the Government of India Act of 1935 (he accomplished a minor revolution by having Parliament...
...fooling any more, and our enemies have indicated that they want to play rough and dirty. Unless we (American and British) forget "the playing fields of Eton," and the "Rover Boys," we are walking around with our chin hanging...
...Harrovian as he was a young one. At his last visit to the school in December 1940, he said: "Herr Hitler, in one of his recent discourses . . . declared that the fight was between those who had been through the Adolf Hitler schools and those who had been at Eton. Hitler had forgotten Harrow, and he had also overlooked the vast majority of the youth of this country who have never had the privilege of attending such schools. . . . When this war is won ... it must be one of our aims to work to establish a state of society where the advantages...
...been decided that the college dress shall remain unaltered except that any kind of grey trousers may be worn with tails or jackets. In addition, new boys may continue to wear at Eton the overcoat, shoes, grey flannel trousers, football boots and fives clothes which they already possess. The Eton tailors have a large quantity of second-hand tail coats, jackets, waistcoats and trousers which can be purchased without [ration] coupons at small cost. The use of these will help to conserve existing supplies of cloth and clothes...