Word: harrows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Foxes of Harrow (20th Century-Fox) may easily be confused with the Foxes of Hollywood. A generation before the Civil War, Stephen Fox (Rex Harrison), a riverboat gambler, becomes a Louisiana plantation owner. He calls the place Harrow and imports a beautiful but not very compliant vixen (Maureen O'Hara) from New Orleans, to become...
...Pray, Sir," Said the Prince. Unlike tradition-bound Eton and Harrow, Gordonstoun, established in 1934 in a castle on the cliff-girt coast of Morayshire, bristled with progressive education. There, aristocratic young Britons were taught to forget class distinctions and live like hemen. Every morning before breakfast they took long hikes, climbed hills or practiced javelin-throwing...
...drugstore fiction, this novel fills an even simpler prescription than its profitable predecessor, The Foxes of Harrow (which stayed triumphantly high on the best-seller lists for more than a year, was sold to 20th Century-Fox and grossed Au thor Frank Yerby something like $250,000). The hero of The Vixens is lean and hard; he moves with controlled grace, and he says everything softly. The girl is slim and golden, her mouth is a splash (some times a slash) of scarlet, and her perfume is faint, elusive. These two daydreams, so happily cast on any Hollywood...
From Blues to Khaki. Once it was a standing joke that Harrow men could get into Magdalen only if there weren't any Eton men on the waiting list. Now undergraduates come from all over, wearing the new uniform of corduroy trousers, Army shirts and "demob" jackets. It is no longer possible to tell a poet from, a Blue (a varsity athlete) by his dress...
Since the Tigers boast an excellent asser in Carl Leibert, Coach Dick Harrow and his assistants devised the notion of inviting the former Columbia ace to participate in the Crimson's pass defense Drill...