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Amid the cloistered books & beams of the Provost's Lodge at Eton College, most famed of Britain's swank public schools and academic nursery of England's royalty and peerage, sat last week the newly appointed Provost of Eton, the Rt. Hon. Lord Hugh Richard Heathcote Cecil, fifth son of the third Marquess of Salisbury, alumnus of Eton and Oxford, Member of Parliament for Oxford University for 26 years. Ever since Henry VI, who founded Eton in 1440, appointed one of his chief advisers to preside over the College's governing body as Provost, this office...
Britain's academic world. The Provost, who holds the office for life, is appointed by the Crown, must be a Master of Arts in the University of Oxford or of Cambridge, must reside in Eton College during the whole of every school term. Reputed to receive a stipend of some $25,000 per year, he must hold no other money-making...
...King Edward's 13-year-old nephew, Viscount Lascelles, elder son of the Princess Royal, Countess of Harewood, reached in his Eton schooldays last week that awful moment at which his Tutor assigned him to "fag" for a senior Etonian. This "fag-master" will expect his tea to be made and his room tidied by Viscount Lascelles who will find his posterior more or less vigorously "swished" with a cane or fives-bat if the toast is burned or the fag-master's cricket boots are improperly cleaned. The King's nephew will most certainly be thus...
...Riley Spitler of Eton, Ohio declared his belief that light of certain colors, relaxing or stimulating the optic nerves, may affect the entire nervous system. He recommended red for increasing blood pressure and curing dizziness, yellowish green or bluish green for stomach disorders, blue or violet for headaches...
...Burke). When his pursuit of Ann costs him his job, he boils the pot with a comic strip inspired by those members of her family whom he has met through his father-the henpecked uncle (Grant Mitchell), the socially ambitious, bullying Mrs. Nesta Pett (Cora Wither spoon), the incorrigible, Eton-suited little nephew (Tommy Bupp). As the Richswitch family of the strip, they become the instantly recognized and hilariously appreciated source of an international guffaw. Only by reconstructing the characters in the strip does Piccadilly Jim restore the abused Petts to sanity, establish himself with Ann, preserve his father from...