Word: oxford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fetchingly in play and bathing suits for innumerable photographs. With some of her tips from photographers for posing, Barbara had her brown hair waved. A climax to Barbara's happy week came when her mother, Ruby, walked up to Francis Carroll, 43, sitting dejected in South Paris' Oxford County Courthouse and impatiently tapped his shoulder...
...Frank N. D. Buchman, founder and leader of the Oxford Group, left here tonight on tour of the Oslo Pact States (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Holland and Belgium) for a series of conferences with national leaders...
...Before sailing, Dr. Buchman announced that 45 Berkeley Square, London, a substantial house of historical interest, is being acquired by friends of the Oxford Group from many countries for use as a world center of this rapidly growing movement...
...International Psychotherapy Congress at Oxford, England, 43-year-old Hypnotist Francis Völgyesi of Budapest, who has put to sleep all the monkeys, foxes, swans and lions in the Budapest Zoo, told reporters how he once gave the eye to a pack of 18 hungry wolves. "I simply got the leader under control," he said, "and then waved the pack back just as if they were soldiers at a drill...
Nippys (waitresses) in Lyons' Corner House on London's Oxford Street last week eyed their patrons carefully. If the customer was a day-to-day white-collar snack-snatcher, the nippy said, as usual: "Yes sir, your order please, sir." But if he was a bizarre, loosely clad foreigner, the nippy said: "Si Sinjoro, vian ordenon, mi petas, Sinjoro." In nearby University of London's University College, some 1,400 delegates of 40 nationalities were gathered in a Congress of the International Esperanto League, and Lyons Restaurants (the Childs chain of England) never miss a trick...