Enter a Murderer.
Doh, I hadn't thought of that. It's on a Kindle. I will see if the library has a copy
He also would have needed to see it in person, or read an account about it, because it certainly wasn't on TV.
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Notes and Queries - Literary and Historical Questions Seeking Short Answers
Enter a Murderer.
Doh, I hadn't thought of that. It's on a Kindle. I will see if the library has a copy
He also would have needed to see it in person, or read an account about it, because it certainly wasn't on TV.
This might do it! Need to check more, but gods might be what the chief prefect students were called at Eton.
'Gods' - Public schools in the UK
In the film, "Another Country", a good deal of the plot revolves around one's promotion to the post or title of "God", i.e. top prefect in the Eton-style public school featured in the movie (based on the novel). Quote: Fowler dislikes him and Judd and wants to stop Bennett from becoming a...
Edit: And here's one with "gods of Pop".
From Teddy Boys to the Tardy Book: What Eton was really like in the Good Old Days
Nicky Haslam, who attended Eton in the Fifties, recalls the days of beaks, fag-masters and dames
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Zardnaar
Legend
Asked family about it no one knew.
American schools have prefects? Mine did, school uniform pull ya socks up, Ye Olde Stuff upper lip, abuse the students etc. Victorian era architecture, mentality, start and cane the students until 1986 officially fire a teacher in 92, for using the cane.
American schools have prefects? Mine did, school uniform pull ya socks up, Ye Olde Stuff upper lip, abuse the students etc. Victorian era architecture, mentality, start and cane the students until 1986 officially fire a teacher in 92, for using the cane.
Mannahnin
Scion of Murgen (He/Him)
Sounds like you're on the right track. Some pop culture event that would have still been famous and well known as of 1935, so the author figured that the average reader would understand what was being alluded to. An Eton boy marrying a royal, perhaps? Or receiving some great state honor or award? "walked on to a dais and grasped the hand". Sounds like some kind of ceremony.
Not generally, but in some old-fashioned private boarding schools, generally for rich people.
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Zardnaar
Legend
Sounds like you're on the right track. Some pop culture event that would have still been famous and well known as of 1935, so the author figured that the average reader would understand what was being alluded to. An Eton boy marrying a royal, perhaps? Or receiving some great state honor or award? "walked on to a dais and grasped the hand". Sounds like some kind of ceremony.
Not generally, but in some old-fashioned private boarding schools, generally for rich people.
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Find out the differences between our two academies and answers to other frequently asked questions about our curriculum.
Ah our school was public complete with school song, hymn book, god save the queen and rule britania and a pipe organ.
Ryujin
Legend
For those in the US or who for some other reason don't know, in The Empire a "public school" is what you would generally refer to as a "private school." School uniforms, storied and ancient legacies, etc., etc...
Davies
Legend
Then this is probably it, then. As a student at Eton, he saw one of the chief prefects shake hands with royalty. That makes much more sense in this context, where he's seeing someone he knows involved in something highly official.This might do it! Need to check more, but gods might be what the chief prefect students were called at Eton.
'Gods' - Public schools in the UK
In the film, "Another Country", a good deal of the plot revolves around one's promotion to the post or title of "God", i.e. top prefect in the Eton-style public school featured in the movie (based on the novel). Quote: Fowler dislikes him and Judd and wants to stop Bennett from becoming a...forum.wordreference.com
Edit: And here's one with "gods of Pop".
From Teddy Boys to the Tardy Book: What Eton was really like in the Good Old Days
Nicky Haslam, who attended Eton in the Fifties, recalls the days of beaks, fag-masters and dameswww.tatler.com
If anyone ever puts together an annotated version of Ms. Marsh's writings, I hope they read this thread.
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