Word: harrower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...passport. At first, he found postwar Britain a bleak place. His English was poor, and he labored as kitchen helper, insurance agent and black marketeer. He made his bid for fortune in the early 1950s by borrowing $2,500 to buy a lodging house near London's Harrow Road. The house cost so little because seven of its eight rooms were occupied by tenants protected by rent control and immune from eviction. Rachman rented the one empty room to a party of eight West Indian musicians who were encouraged to hold nightlong parties and raise hell; they...
...came to Chief Tory Whip Martin Redmayne's Commons office with his solicitor. He was confronted by Redmayne, Tory Chairman Iain Macleod, Minister without Portfolio William Deedes, Attorney General Sir John Hobson and Solicitor General Sir Peter Rawlinson. Two of Profumo's interrogators had been at Harrow with...
Coexistence. Of noble Italian descent, John Dennis Profumo had every qualification to reach the Tories' top ranks: Harrow and Oxford, fine war record, brains, drive, and a beautiful wife, Movie Actress Valerie (Great Expectations) Hobson. Together, the Pro-fumos were weekending at Cliveden, famed country estate of Lord and Lady Astor, when they were introduced to Christine in 1961. Also present: Stephen Ward, who had a cottage on the place. Thereafter, Valerie stayed home while Jack visited Christine at Ward's flat in Wimpole Mews. What the War Minister never knew was that Christine had another regular visitor...
Chauffeur at Groton. Until recently, pace was not the pride of many famed New England boys' boarding schools, which for years had the pretense but not the product of Eton and Harrow. Now they have changed dramatically. By snubbing Social Register dullards and by combing the country for bright recruits of all races, religions and incomes, they are fast becoming more democratic than homogeneous suburban public schools. "The idea that private schools are for snobs is absolute nonsense," says Owen B. Kiernan, Massachusetts' commissioner of education. A few Junes ago, one proper Bostonian summed up: "Today my daughter...
...Though no Prime Minister in modern times has been a bachelor. Of 43 men who have held the office, 26 (unlike Heath) went to Eton or Harrow; 34, like Heath, went to Oxford...