Word: oxfordized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stables his mongoose, Rikki. In his first picture, Sabu memorized the sound of English words, spoke them without understanding. Now, having packed a lifetime's schooling into two years, he not only speaks and reads English but can read French and Latin as well, hopes to get into Oxford in three years. Last week, Sabu sailed on the Aquitania for his first visit to the U. S., in the course of which he will attend the première of Drums, call on Mrs. Roosevelt, meet Shirley Temple in Hollywood...
...mostly youngsters at the age of puberty who were obsessed, or were told that they ought to be obsessed, with personal, private sin. Prime Buchmanite teaching was that such sin could be purged by confession. Today the high command of Buchmanism is more mature, the movement calls itself the Oxford Group,* and its policies have been weaned from...
...recent years Oxford Groupers have concluded that '"God-control" could, and should, change not only individuals but nations and the world. One instance of this belief which gives pause to many an anti-Fascist is the Buchmanite notion that dictators are fine fellows who simply need a little Buchmanite guidance to become good Buchmanites-and incidentally order their obedient millions to do likewise. Last week in London, world headquarters of the Group, and in Switzerland, where Buchmanites have held many an international gathering, Dr. Buchman's current strategy bore newsworthy results...
...London Times last fortnight, 33 M.P.s dispatched a statement approving the Oxford Group's "crusade for moral rearmament which appears to be spreading rapidly." Signers included not only Conservative committee members and two onetime Lord Mayors, but Laborites like Arthur Henderson, J. R. Clynes (onetime Home Secretary), John McGovern. Last week in the Times much the same approval was expressed by an even weightier assemblage of 17 names. Among them: Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, the Marquess of Salisbury, Field Marshal Sir William Birdwood, Lord Chamberlain the Earl of Clarendon, Admiral of the Fleet the Earl of Cork & Orrery...
Lecturing at Oxford on Jews who have been forced to flee from Germany, Sir John Simpson announced that thus far in Britain these refugees have done so well that they have given jobs to 25,000 Englishmen. Sir John blandly concluded a warm plea for more refugees saying, "Thus far the number of jobs they have given our people exceeds the number of refugees...