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Word: old-boy (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1958-1958
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Upper-Crust Low Life | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

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