Word: oxfords
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prominent musical educators. Will Earhart (Pittsburgh), John A. H. Keith (Harrisburg, Pa.), R. G. Jones (Cleveland), Mrs. Edgar S. Kelley (Oxford, Ohio, President of the National Federation of Music Clubs), Mabelle Glenn (Kansas City), Ada Bicking (Lansing. Mich.), Frederick A. Alden, George H. Gartlan. P. W. Dykema, Hollis Dann (Manhattan...
...Delegates cheered these extravagant phrases, mostly for three reasons. First, a Parliamentary election draws nigh, and the Liberals, with only 41 seats in Parliament, must campaign with desperate zeal against Conservatives ("Tories") who hold 412 seats, and the Labor contingent of 157. Second, the death of the Earl of Oxford and Asquith has left David Lloyd George supreme within the Liberal Party, so that even those who dislike his theatric methods hail him as the "Man of Victory." Lastly, the kinetic personality of Orator Lloyd George nearly always sweeps his auditors off their feet. Indeed he swept all Britain...
Harvard men are fortunate in this one remaining reminiscence of the warm lustre which once spelled College. The Towers of Oxford have called out from loyal sons and disinterested beauty lovers rhapsodic utterances that have become a part of the race. The beauty that was Cambridge is hardly less dear to those who knew it before all parkways were Metropolitan. But there is a mile of the Charles that forgets its urban surroundings, and is still part of a Harvard education...
Just before his death, Lord Oxford completed the reminiscences, which he had been writing for several years. This long-awaited work by the man who was British Prime Minister from 1908 to 1916 is unquestionably one of the most important autobiographies of the year...
Prince Chichibu, short, lithe, athletic, sallow-skinned, once studied at Oxford. During his vacations he scampered up Swiss Alps, peered from mountain tops through his owlish tortoise shell spectacles...