Word: oxfordized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...does not appear. Not satirizing but seriously analyzing the shortcomings of the Oxford Group, author-director Rachel Crothers has let her characters speak flippantly of God without allowing her play to be in any way flippant. The play rails at houseparties, confessions, dowagers, the substitution of "spiritual" for "physical" love and the superficiality which often characterizes the Group. But at its objective attempts to smooth out human relations Miss Crothers does not laugh she merely disagrees...
...Oxford University Press...
...priceless assets to Joseph Chamberlain. Everyone thought of Gladstone in terms of collars. . . . Anthony Eden's adoption of the Foreign Office hat secured him. . . . But Churchill! What protean changes his hats represent, embracing official and naval cocked hats, army pillbox, hussars' busby, service cap, steel helmet, sombrero, Oxford degree hat, artists' berets and paper party hats...
Other meetings will be held in Philadelphia, Washington, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and at Connecticut State College, Dartmouth, Syracuse University, Miami University (Oxford, Ohio), and the Universities of Illinois, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Northwestern, Purdue, Fisk, Stanford, Claremont, Duke, North Dakota, and California...
...Oxford there are two things named Isis -a river where undergraduates row, a newspaper in whose columns undergraduates row. Much water having flowed through the Isis locks since December 1936, when Edward of Britain demoted himself to David of Windsor, Oxford's Isis undergraduates last week urged his return home with his wife...