Word: etonisms
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...Buckingham Palace, beneath whose gardens were built prodigious bombproof quarters for King, retinue, servants. Queen Elizabeth and the two Princesses stayed on at Balmoral Castle, where gas masks were issued to all. Later they would go to Windsor Castle, whose rock, looming above the fabled cricket fields of Eton, was tunneled and chambered invulnerably for them and for art treasures from Buckingham Palace as well as the Castle. Queen Mary obdurately insisted on staying at Sandringham on the dangerous east coast...
Like 100 of his Parliamentary colleagues, Lord Balniel went to Eton. Like 180 of the 415 Tory M.P.s, he is a director of a corporation. He is younger than the average Tory in the House (50), but he is like the majority in his widespread family connections: on Government benches, in the House of Lords, in the Cabinet, he has cousins, in-laws, distant relatives, as have the Scotts, Stanleys, Cavendishes and the Guests who can count 77 past and present M.P.s related by blood or marriage...
...Woodward selects half of the crop to be sold at Saratoga, keeps the other half for racing. From the racing group he chooses four to be sent to England, to become acclimatized to English weather and accustomed to English tracks ?under the guidance of the celebrated British trainer, Eton-bred Captain Cecil Boyd-Rochfort, at his famed Freemason Lodge at Newmarket. The rest of the crop is sent to Long Island, entrusted to the loving care of Trainer Fitzsimmons, ablest...
Usually the annual cricket match between Eton and Harrow, Britain's two most exclusive "public" schools where many a future Empire builder gets his early training, is a well-mannered, ultra-polite social function. There old grads, most of them carrying umbrellas, wearing cutaways and top hats and accompanied by their wives dressed in ankle-length garden-party frocks, are brought together by the force of the old school tie. U. S. spectators, used to rowdy football games, are always amazed at the polite applause, rather than raucous cheering, that greets the players; at the number of high-collared...
Last week Eton and Harrow played again at the exclusive Lord's Cricket Ground near London. Harrow, for the first time since 1908, won. It was too much for Harrovians, young and old, and they rushed on to the field to carry off the winning team on their shoulders. Some how a few Etonians got in the way, and be fore the enthusiasm had died down many an Eton topper had been smashed in and many an Harrovian umbrella busted. It was a very unseemly, frightfully un-British brawl...