Word: oxfordized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years later, while foraging in a cherry tree, but found Grace again in the works of Ruskin, Carlyle, Emerson, Matthew Arnold, Walt Whitman (who often visited the Smiths) and Philosopher William James, also a friend of the family. At 23 Logan wangled a lump inheritance, went to Oxford. He never went back to the U. S., except for visits...
...School of Dramatic Art (directed by Shanghai's top-rank cinemactress). There were few buildings in Yenan to house the schools but in the hard-packed loess hillsides, students gouged cave classrooms and dormitories (see cut). There 4,000 men, 1,000 women, more than there are at Oxford, study Chinese Problems, Military Science, Guerrilla Warfare, listen to lectures on "The policy of the British Government toward Czecho-Slovakia," "The effect of Britain's financial policy on the French franc...
...Moral Rearmament" became the 1938 slogan of Dr. Frank Buchman's Oxford Groups, who worked betimes for a religious revival, and betimes announced that it had already happened. A revival of sorts likewise continued outside the churches, in the cults of California, in the "Heavens" of Father Divine...
...Then it had the verve to produce certain dramas that Broadway wouldn't dare touch," the Pulitzer Prize playwright continued. Wilder pointed out that Oxford and Cambridge Universities invite English actors and actresses to take part in distinguished plays unsuited for commercial production. "Why the Yale Dramatic Club has been doing it," he declared, smiling...
Like patent-medicine manufacturers, the Oxford Groups of Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman esteem testimonials. From their London and Manhattan headquarters they send out batches of statements from the great and the near-great, praising their trademarked remedy-or at least denouncing the ills it is meant to cure...