Word: oxford
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...rack? Companies like Polo Ralph Lauren are offering shoppers all kinds of customizing services. At polo.com browsers can design their own polo shirts, choosing from a selection of 32 body colors and 12 pony-logo colors. Shirts are made to order and delivered within two weeks. Next month oxford shirts, below, complete with the date of origin stitched into the lower-right seam above the vent, will be available for customization in 11 colors and 8 pony-color options. The idea for the service came when customers began asking for the classic shirts in offbeat colors. Now custom orders amount...
Serious student Jane (Ashley), with "a 4.2 GPA," wakes up anxious the day she is to deliver a speech that could win her a scholarship to Oxford. Her rebellious sib Roxy (Mary-Kate) is cutting school, again, to attend the making of a rock video. Their paths cross, and they spend a frantic five hours in Manhattan getting into cute scrapes, kooky car chases, a few changes of clothes and the city's sewers...
...rivalry of Oxford and Cambridge in sport therefore is a thing apart, a matter between themselves, something to be settled by 'young 'varsity gentlemen' without the pother and popular clamor which are the inevitable concomitants of intercollegiate contests in the United States...
...only is the attitude of the American undergraduate different. It also is the loyalty of the American graduate. The Oxford or Cambridge graduate loves his university, but, unlike to graduate of Princeton or Yale, he do not love her in altogether so strenuous a fashion. He does not have to set seriously to work to convince the public that his university is serving the national more effectively than any other university. For admittedly these two do so already. He does not create graduate councils and employ publicity agents, because there is no necessity for such things. (As with the English...
...first foam party experience was at a skeevy club on the top floor of a concrete shopping mall in Oxford, England. I was 15. It was the first and only time I was carded the entire summer. Along with a group of ten teenage Americans, I was asked to show identification, amusingly enough because they thought I was over 18. Embarrassingly, it was a teen-only night. As I sashayed among the soapy suds to Brit-pop, I couldn’t help but enjoy the blend of childhood and adulthood...