Word: old-boy
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...France's Ambassador to the U.S. He then studied for entrance into the corps of Inspecteurs des Finances, a superelite brain trust that admits only a handful of men to its ranks each year and produces some of France's top administrative talent. Its veterans form an old-boy network that makes Britain's Oxbridge clan seem about as selective as the crowd at Auteuil...
...Old-Boy Network. Even before the leadership election last February, Wilson confided to Laborite Richard H.S. Crossman that "Labor should be the party of science." He explained: "If I get the job, I believe the party will be able to liberate the frustrated energies of thousands of young scientists, technologists and specialists who feel there is no room at the top for them under the present antiscientific Old-Boy network in industry and Whitehall...
True, Harold Wilson is still something of an enigma to the public. On the other hand, Britons may find Wilson's grey manner and grim reputation a welcome change after the government's all-too Old-Boy handling of the Profumo affair. "Wilson doesn't seem very nice," mused one Londoner last week. "Good. That's what we need now. A round little P.M. with a pipe-and a dash of nastiness...
...flexible term, usually critical, for the British ruling class's ruling class, e.g., the Archbishop of Canterbury and all Anglican bishops, certain peers with long bloodlines, top civil servants, Etonian Tories, staunch monarchists, and Times leader writers, all of whom together constitute what has been called "the old-boy circuit" or "the stately domes of England...