Word: oxonian
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...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...
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...
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...
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...
Anthony Chenevix-Trench. 43, an out-of-tradition choice since he did not go to Eton or even teach there. But Oxonian Chenevix-Trench, a Berkshire headmaster who lists his recreations as "shooting and general outdoor activities," thinks right about the rites of Eton. He plans no changes: "It is a wise chap who waits and sees." He is for "fagging," the custom that makes new boys the servants of older boys. As for another old custom, the right of head boys to beat others, he says: "If I were going to a school that didn't have...