Word: oxonian
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Twenty years ago Louis Golding was an orchidaceous Oxonian. After "going down" from the University he began to write novels that were so showily finespun, so self-consciously clever that they irritated many a reader. From there he went on to heavier chronicles of Jewish family life. His twelfth novel shows a further development: The Dance Goes On is almost a pure adventure story. Critics were sure this was a comedown, but common readers felt it was a decided improvement...
...sank an Ulsterman. do so when Bobby Jones and Lawson Little ceased playing in it. Last week they had a hard time reviving their excitement even when it became apparent that an American was going to win. The American was Robert Sweeny, 25. a long-legged, wavy-haired Oxonian, who learned his golf in England where he has lived for ten years. Watched by his friend Cinemactress Merle Oberon. Sweeny put out Wehrle in the round of eight and a Staffordshire miner named Charles Stowe in the semi-finals the same day. Next day a hard-fought 36-hole final...
...which they climbed on the stage and "took over the show." Rightly suspecting that the young gentlemen would want to finish up by stealing the statue of Eros in Piccadilly Circus, police had it swiftly boarded up and a hollow square of burly Bobbies easily withstood charge after tipsy Oxonian charge. Old Oxonian A. P. Herbert, famed Punch funster and Member of Parliament, attended the fray for hours, ready according to his wisecracks to testify as an M. P. in behalf of any student who might be arrested. Legislator Herbert kept calling to the police: "We are making no trouble...
Aside from the Oxonian reference to Mrs. Simpson as "chicken a la king" and to her residence, as the King's Arms, undergraduates seriously oppose her, not because she is an American or a commoner but because they refuse to have a "King's favorite" as queen. This is the core of the opposition...
...soon vacation begins which for the Oxonian means six weeks of uninterrupted study. Some will do it in Munich; others in Paris, St. Moritz or points south. There's a group of six going to the South Seas; there are several leaving for Spain to try to join up with the insurgent forces. Then again there are several Americans who will spend Christmas day on home soil. It is remarkable how the spirit of Christmas, somehow or other entangled with the devices of Cupid, works to take Americans home from abroad...