Word: oxonian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...film tells the outlines of the Wesley story, and shows Wesley, in a series of episodic scenes, developing from a pious moppet learning to read Genesis to a black-robed Oxonian distributing bread to the poor. Wesley's adventures in the colony of Georgia, where he had a commission to instruct godless Indians, are ticked off in a snatch of dialogue, but his search for a divine revelation that would give him "the inward witness" which lies at the heart of Methodism gets serious and moving treatment...
After the race, jubilant Old" Dark Blues pounded winning Oxonian shoulders until they ached. The Cambridge coxswain, soberly directing his crew as they shouldered their shell into the boathouse, had the last word: "Come back next year...
...their old Victorian mahogany beds, shaved in the morning at the same old jug and bowl. "It is still 100 yards to the nearest john," complained one ex-scholar. All over Oxford, middle-aged men showed off old haunts to their wives. Arkansas' Senator James Fulbright, awarded an Oxonian honorary degree, said nostalgically: "Nothing has changed-only...
...Sultan, an old Oxonian, had no reason, especially in his personal history, to like British officials, or planters, or Singapore's British businessmen. They had not openly objected to his marriage back in 1930 to Scottish-born Helen Wilson (after he had shed an unspecified number of Moslem wives, and she had shed a husband who happened to be the Sultan's personal physician), but they left him in no doubt about their views of his method of divorcing Helen. In the traditional Moslem manner, the Sultan called it off by saying "Talak [I divorce you]" the required...
Education: Winchester and Oxford. A top honors man (history) in 1925, Sir Roger is the 14th Oxonian to serve as British envoy in Washington...