Word: oxonian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week was a lively approach to that area: The Reader over Your Shoulder-A Handbook for Writers of English Prose, by Robert Graves & Alan Hodge (Macmillan; $3). Graves's books (over 60) now outnumber his years (48). He collaborated on The Reader with a 28-year-old Oxonian official of the British Ministry of Information...
...Oxonian English...
When Minister Bevin announced last month that the Group's lay evangelists would not be exempted from military service, there was a great hubbub. To Laborite Bevin's defense sprang Crusader-Humorist Alan Patrick Herbert, Oxford University's Member in Parliament. To Oxonian Herbert the Oxford Group is a bee in the bustle. It riles him to think that Frank Buchman and his brash, eupeptic fishers among the up-&-outs* have the nerve to link themselves implicitly with the great Oxford Movements led by John Wesley and Cardinal Newman...
...Oxonian Herbert's words touched off a row like a summer thunderstorm. One hundred seventy-four Members of Parliament signed a petition supporting the Group. Evangelist Buchman himself was not available for comment (he was last seen in Bath, Me. attending a Group musical show called You Can Defend America), but from his press-relations department came a stream of releases giving testimonials from everyone from Franklin Roosevelt to "the Lord Mayor of Bristol and 52 aldermen and councilors...
Five minutes later this cheery greeting from a German radio station in Occupied France was answered with a polite Oxonian "Thank you." Ended, apparently, were months of dickering between World War II's big belligerents for the exchange of some 3,000 war prisoners (excluding men able to fight). For two days last week two shiploads of military (wounded) and civilian (interned) German prisoners were held up at Newhaven as rumors flew thick & fast that scheduled sailings had been delayed because Adolf Hitler demanded the return of Rudolf Hess, who went A.W.O.L., so that he could clap him into...