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Word: oxonian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beautifier (MODERN LIVING)-Portrait of a Lady Bountiful: philanthropist. Oxonian, art collector, known to New Yorkers as the city's unofficial green thumb, now deeply involved in the White House conference on American beauty. She is Mary Lasker, the kind of woman who, when she sends flowers, may send 40,000 daffodils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Jun. 4, 1965 | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

...Black Englishman." The man who won at tiddlywinks is Seretse Khama, 43, a tall, bearded Oxonian who 16 years ago threw away his right to the paramount chieftainship of the powerful Bamangwato tribe to marry an English girl. Seretse, even then known as "the black Englishman" to friend and foe alike, was studying law in London in 1947 when he met Ruth Williams, a blonde, 24-year-old insurance clerk who lived with her parents and sister in suburban Lewisham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bechuanaland: Walking the Tightrope | 3/12/1965 | See Source »

Married. Durie Desloge, 22, daughter of Palm Beach Socialite Durie Desloge Shevlin; and Roderic Iain Bullough, 28, London blueblood, Oxonian, former Coldstream Guardsman; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 15, 1964 | 5/15/1964 | See Source »

This is just as well, for if he were to play his actual self, he would sever the very tendons of plausibility. He is a citizen of hotel rooms, and his "normal" accent is imitation Oxonian. He wears purple velvet slippers initialed in gold. He considers himself a connoisseur of fine wine, which he sometimes chases down with vodka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actors: The Boy Prince | 12/6/1963 | See Source »

Died. Lieut. General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart, 83, one of Britain's best-known soldiers, the proud possessor of eleven battle wounds and many more decorations for valor, a lanky Oxonian who lost his left eye battling dervishes in Somaliland, and his left hand during a grenade charge at Ypres in 1915, and became Churchill's military envoy to Chiang Kai-shek in World War II; in Killinardrish, Ireland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 14, 1963 | 6/14/1963 | See Source »

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