At Eton, John Vaughan Wilkes, his former headmaster's son recalled, "... he was extremely argumentative — about anything — and criticising the masters and criticising the other boys .... We enjoyed arguing with him.

At Eton he played tricks on John Crace, his Master in College, among which was to enter a spoof advertisement in a College magazine implying pederasty.

At Eton and at Cambridge, Keynes had been prolific in his homosexual activity ; significant among these early partners were Dilly Knox and Daniel Macmillan.

At the Restoration of the king in 1660 he was favourably received at court, and in 1665 would have received the provostship of Eton College, if he would have taken orders ; but this he refused to do on the ground that his writings on religious subjects would have greater weight coming from a layman than a paid minister of the Church.

At Eton, there are dozens of organisations known as ' societies ', in many of which pupils come together to discuss a particular topic, presided over by a master, and often including a guest speaker.

At Eton, Lyttelton fagged for Lord Carrington and formed his love of jazz.

At the age of thirteen Huxley attended Eton College as a King's Scholar, and continued to develop scientific interests ; his grandfather had influenced the school to build science laboratories much earlier.

At Eton he developed an interest in ornithology, guided by science master W. D. ' Piggy ' Hill.

At Eton, his contemporaries included Cyril Connolly, who later described him as:

At the age of ten, in 1767, he began his education at Eton College, a public school in Berkshire.

At a fancy-dress party at the Firth family house of Cavendish Hall, Suffolk, Francis dressed up as a flapper with an Eton crop, beaded dress, lipstick, high heels, and a long cigarette holder.

At Eton Powell spent much of his spare time at the Studio, where a sympathetic art master encouraged him to develop his talent as a draftsman and his interest in the visual arts.

At school he wrote for the College Magazine, edited the subsequent Horæ Otiosæ, and after leaving Eton contributed verses to the Etonian during 1820 – 1.

At Eton in 1914

At Eton, Rosebery notably attacked Charles I of England for his despotism, and went on to praise his Whig forebears-his ancestor, James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope, was a minister to George I of Great Britain.

His first role in a major film production was in A Yank At Eton ( 1942 ), where he played a snobbish bully opposite Mickey Rooney.

At the age of thirteen, he went to Eton College in Berkshire, following his father and elder brother.

At the upper end of the scale, public boarding schools such as Eton and Harrow were founded or greatly extended to meet the growing demand for the education of the children of those in colonial service overseas.

At Winchester College and Eton College, there is a separate house for foundation scholars.

At Eton, his distant cousin Bridges was his senior and took him under his wing.

At Eton, Gresham was his house captain.

At the age of 13, the young Harris was sent to Eton to finish his education.

At Eton, Kynaston was never on the losing side in the needle matches against Harrow and Winchester.

At Eton in 1658 he preached the funeral sermon of Francis Rous, the provost ; in 1660 he was ejected.

At the same moment Wheeler Fiske fired the rifle Mike had given him and another guerrilla was hit.

At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.

At one and the same time, she was within it but still searching for the drawbridge that would give her entry.

At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;

At the pool's far end was the little cabana Joyce had mentioned, and on the water's surface floated scattered lavender patches of limp-looking lather.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

At the same time, all suggestions that some sort of societal responsibility existed for the welfare of the people within the territorial state was strongly resisted.

At the heart of all of this was the square, which one such traveler declared to be `` as spacious, as pleasant and aromatick a Market as any in the Universe ''.

At the moment he was excited about his son's having received the Prix De Rome in archaeology and was looking forward to being present this summer at the excavation of an Etruscan tomb.

At first glance this appears strange: of all people, was not America founded by rugged individualists who established a new way of life still inspiring `` undeveloped '' societies abroad??

At this period the thirty-year old Helion was ranked `` as one of the mature leaders of the modern movement '', according to Herbert Read, `` and in the direct line of descent from Cezanne, Seurat, Gris and Leger ''.

At Stettin the university-educated artist, who had studied German, was chosen to serve as interpreter and clerk in the office of the Stalag commander.

At last they concluded that the heavy, full feeling in their stomachs was due to lack of exercise.

At this time Harriet wrote in a letter which after their finally landing in India was sent to her mother:

At this, the students let out a yell, knowing full well the actual frontier was beyond the town of Kehl.

At no time does he seem to have proposed marriage, and Mrs. King was evidently torn between a concern for her daughter's emotions and the desire to believe that the friendship might be continued without harm to her reputation.

At headquarters -- sufficiently far from the firing line to make you forget occasionally that you were in a war -- Lewis found that the Commander in Chief's only desk was his knees ( and his only comb, his fingers ).

At this moment Mando came hurrying up to announce that the problem was solved and all Norton had to do was to sign a sheaf of papers.

At Sounion there is a group of beautiful columns, the ruins of a temple to Poseidon, of particular interest at that time, as active reconstruction was in progress.

At the trial which took place later, the Pomham matter was completely omitted.

At Camp Taylor in Kentucky a barracks was built in an hour and a half from timber that had been standing in Mississippi forests one week before.

At the end of World War 2,, free Europe was ready for a new beginning.