Word: oxfords
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Science. The science articles are so written as to be of value to layman and scientist alike. William Beebe, for instance, reveals that the wild animals on the Galapagos Islands are tame. L. H. Dudley Buxton, Anthropological reader at Oxford, recalls that Jenghiz Khan was born "with a piece of clotted blood in his hand...
...house idea at Cambridge which would cloister the young men in Boston suburb reproductions of Baliol, Magdalene, etc. There is an endowment available for one of them. A further projection of the idea is that the athletics of the university shall be principally contests between the houses, as at Oxford and Cambridge, with university matches only with Yale...
When England builds a new university it does not reproduce Oxford or try to do so. The founders would be more apt to study the University of Illinois as containing what is relevant to modern life...
...most aristocratic schools, but Henry Byron Warner fitted there all right; his father, Charles Warner, was an actor before him. After finishing with school and with the University College in London, Warner spoke and dressed as though he had been to Eton and Oxford. In the growing success of his early days on the stage, he wore a slight, sharp mustache; his sloping shoulders and handsome, expressive hands gave him distinction. He has been in pictures for 15 years, now plays the district attorney or the husband oftener than the hero, gets fewer letters than younger stars, but has established...
Flicker. In the interest of another kind of dancing came Roger MacEwan, a dance-master of Glasgow and London. He too brought a new dance, his own invention, called the "Oxford" and consisting of four variants of the fox trot and tango. Included in his suite was a thing called the "flicker" which he said was the rage in London. Obligingly he "flicked" for the 80 delegates. Pointing a well-shod toe, taking a step forward with the right foot, bringing the left across so that the ankles touch, the "flickerer" then stamps smartly with the right foot, executing...