Word: oxfordized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English language news, intoned in bland Oxford accents, is insidious because smooth, therefore, to the unsophisticated, impartial. Consistently the B. B. C. represents the pseudo-democratic viewpoint of Britain's ruling caste, now belligerent because its habitually quiet but nevertheless arrogant assumption of omniscience in Europe and in Asia is effectively challenged by the Dictatorships...
...negotiations to Tokyo, and has been trying to sabotage the parleys all along. The Army hopes for a holdout, and a breakdown of the Tokyo negotiations. "Such a development," said pudgy, suave Major General Masaharu Homma, Commander of the Tientsin Garrison, who learned to hate the British as an Oxford student, "can only be welcomed. Then we shall be freed of the Government's promise to respect British interests in Asia. The Tientsin Concession can then finally be closed...
Britain's First Commissioner of Works approximates Sam Goldwyn's idea of the U. S. citizen's idea of a Member of Parliament. His name is Herwald Ramsbotham (pronounced Ramsbottom). He studied at Oxford, fought gallantly in the War. His frosty monocle magnifies a warm twinkle. He wears striped shirts, and talks as if he had some hot Yorkshire pudding in his mouth. His strength lies in his solid conservatism, his besetting weakness is for classical quotations...
Beaked Alan Patrick Herbert, 48, England's quixotic M. P. for Oxford who crusades with equal fervor for good beer, sensible divorce laws and the King's English, broke a lance against the windmill of officialese. Said he, if Nelson's famed signal ("England expects every man to do his duty") were repeated today, it would read: "England anticipates that as regards the current emergency, personnel will face up to the issues and exercise appropriately the functions allocated to their respective occupation groups...
CAROLINE OF ANSBACH-R. L. Arkell-Oxford University Press...