Word: oxfordized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Justice Frankfurter, vastly enjoying his new pontifical position, planned to pause at his home in Cambridge, Mass, before sailing to receive an honorary degree from Oxford University, England. Justice Roberts headed for his Pennsylvania farm; Justice Black for a rented house at Seminary, Va.; Justice Butler for an honorary degree from Boston College, then his farm at Woodbine, Md.; Justice Stone for his 45th class reunion at Amherst, then for Isle au Haut...
...workers were given a half holiday with pay. Factories, shops and offices hung out yards of gay Yugoslav flags distributed by Propaganda Minister Dr. Goebbels, while their employes marched in masses to allotted cheering stations along the troop-lined streets. Out of his special train stepped puzzled-looking, Oxford-bred Regent Prince Paul, whom Germans quickly nicknamed "Prince Charming." In his most winning manner Herr Hitler greeted the Prince while Frau Göring handed Princess Olga, the Regent's wife, a bouquet of roses, welcomed her to Naziland...
...sponsored similar fire rituals. Broadcast to them all, from the World's Fair, went a speech on "Youth in Tomorrow's World," by Attorney General Frank Murphy, a devout Roman Catholic who is no more averse to helping the Y. M. C. A. than to endorsing the Oxford Group (see p. 54). All this smoke, fire and warm sentiment celebrated the Y. M. C. A.'s 95th anniversary...
Last month in Manhattan, parsnip-nosed Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman launched in the U. S. the latest campaign of his Oxford Groupers-Moral Re-Armament (TIME, May 22). Last week Dr. Buchman sought to sell MRA to the nation's Capital. To the Washington Star he sounded off in the copy writers' slogans which, over a period of years, he has diligently worked up. Sample: "Suppose everybody cared enough, everybody shared enough, wouldn't everybody have enough? There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed...
...returned to his old home on Brattle Street "to round out the year." He plans to sail with Mrs. Frankfurter on June 14 on the Normandie. The Justice will go to Oxford University to receive an honorary degree...