Word: oxfordized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your readers know Oxford's other metaphysical classic...
...years ago the Oxford University Press and England's Columbia Graphophone Co. planned a joint history of music, stamped on records. Edited by the noted English music historian and lexicographer, Percy Scholes (TIME, Dec. 12), this history was to consist of short recorded examples of music typical of all periods from the loth Century to the present. The Columbia History's fifth and last volume gives a taste and a sniff of the 20th Century's principal musical styles, ranges from the romantic Schwarmerei of Richard Strauss and Mahler to the quarter-tone caterwauling of Kulturbolschewik Alois...
About records: Mildred Bailey releases six sides of blues, backed by her Oxford Greys (an all star colored band) next week that should make record history . . . Charlie Barnet's "Echoes of Harlem" while not up to the Duke version of same, is quite good . . . The Woody Herman of "Woodchopper's Ball" is a very good side of blues with trombone by Neil Reed. No adjectives needed. . . For some remarkable changes, even for Ellington, get "Something To Live For" (Brunswick) and listen to the introduction. . . Hampton's "Wizzin' the Wizz" is supposed to be even better two fingered piano. I still...
...monkish orders of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U. S., oldest is the Society of St. John the Evangelist.* Members of this order are commonly called the Cowley Fathers, after the village near Oxford, England, where the order was founded in 1865-and where Viscount Nuffield first made his Morris Cowley and Morris Oxford cars. Mother house of U. S. Cowley Fathers is the Monastery of St. Mary and St. John, on the banks of the Charles River in Cambridge, Mass...
...Detroit, Hotel Manager William 0. Seelbach, thinking (with a wink) to insure the city against rain during an outdoor industrial exhibition, invited 67-year-old Rain Maker Lillie Stoat of Oxford, Miss. (TIME, April 10) to come to Detroit while the show was on, without her umbrella. Rain Maker Stoat refused to come. It rained and snowed...