Word: oxonian
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...published from last July to January, then folded up. Its best piece of fortune was that it had libel insurance when dimpled, kink-curly Shirley Temple sued it because of Critic Graham Greene's review of her Wee Willie Winkie. One of England's famed film critics, Oxonian Greene, a devout Catholic, had found Shirley's acting offensive, and offensively intimated that it appealed to man's baser sex instincts. "She wore trousers," he wrote, "with the mature suggestiveness of a Dietrich. . . . Her admirers-middle-aged men and clergymen-respond to her dubious coquetry . . . agile studio...
POEMS-Rex Warner-Knopf ($2). When of late years the Anglo-Communism of Oxford Poets Auden, Spender, Day Lewis broke the ice of post-War English poetry, fellow Oxonian Rex Warner started skating on one of the smaller cakes. More of a country man than an Anglo-Communist, more of an Anglo-Communist than a poet, his best poems are honest descriptions, his worst, honest cant...
Grandparent of the labor press is the American Federation of Labor's pedagogical, 44-year-old American Federationist. Two months ago C. I. O. started a national weekly, the $1-a-year tabloid C. I. 0. News. Its editor is Oxonian Len De Caux, who was born in a New Zealand mining town 38 years ago, has worked on many leading U. S. labor papers. In spots where the C. I. O.-A. F. of L. breach has been most serious, C. I. 0. has also started its own local papers. Frank Palmer's People's Press...
...behind'' the times, Oxonians still have the outlook toward sex of the post-War period, when ''intercourse was fashionable" and not taken seriously. Briant estimates 20% of undergraduettes (Oxonian for coeds) and 30% of undergraduates have sex experiences at the university. A popular sport of undergraduates is to arrange a petting ±party in their digs, lay in a supply of strong drink "to which the girls are not likely to be accustomed." dim the lights. . . . For "furtive immorality" Muckraker Briant blames the Puritan views of proctors. One signpost of progress: "Homosexuality is no longer...
Physical Education. Oxford lacks a gymnasium. Oxonian Briant reproaches Oxford's chief benefactor, Lord Nuffield, * who gave $10,000,000 for a medical centre last year, for refusing to allocate $500,000 of it for a school of physical education "to minimize the number of those requiring the benefit of medical research...