Word: oxonians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...King) went Dr. Hafez Ann Pasha, Ambassador to Great Britain from 1936 to 1938 (and admiring author of The English in Their Homes), lately head of the Bank Misr, one of the largest financial houses in the Arab world. In as royal adviser on foreign affairs went Old Oxonian Abdel Fattah Amr Pasha (TIME, Dec. 24), who last month quit London with noticeable reluctance after serving there as Egypt's Ambassador for the past seven years...
...Other Oxonian exceptions: Matthew Arnold, Walter Savage Landor, Southey, Swinburne and a second cousin of Reader Hopkins, the Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins...
...bright idea had come to Old Oxonian Stacey when he got to thinking about Britain's festival year. Why, he wondered, shouldn't Oxford students themselves cash in on the tourist-trade boom? His undergraduate friends agreed, and within a few days he had signed up 90 of them to act as guides at IDS. a tour. He gave them careful instructions ("You know, point out the Dean's bathroom and that sort of thing"), and to add a bit of glamour, he even hired some London models to accompany each bus out of London and point...
...keen as the rivalry between Ford and Chevrolet-and a good deal older. Last week George Trevelyan, Master of Trinity College and High Steward of the Borough of Cambridge, announced that he was petitioning the Crown to change Cambridge's status from town to city. Cried one Oxonian on hearing the news: "Good gracious! In their efforts for equality, Cambridge will be wanting a bishop next." Oxford has been both bishopric and city for more than four centuries...
...American hospitality, concluded Oxonian Robinson, "I raise a foaming mug of pink ice-cream in ginger-beer (the national beverage) and pledge my sincere gratitude. But a Bronx cheer for the neons, the nylons, and the nut-melbas-each one of the Twenty-Eight Flavours-and Odo-ro-no, Times Square, the subways, the Empire State, drugstores, candy and campuses ... O Lord...