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Oxford's pacifism was scarcely more lamentable to many a proud Old Oxonian than a fact reported by The Spectator: "Jackets with cuffs and elbows strengthened with leather to prolong life are very common in the streets...
...little man stopped, faced the officer. "My name is not Romanoff," he said in lofty Oxonian. "It's Gerguson...
...became rural dean of Hertford in 1904, honorary chaplain to King Edward VII in 1909. Asquith appointed him in 1916 Bishop of Exeter, a vast diocese about which the noble Bishop motors and occasionally bicycles, his long square coattails flapping about his gaitered legs. An old Etonian and Oxonian, he drinks dozens of cups of tea daily, is conservative in politics, lofty high church in theology. To the U. S. the Lord Bishop brought his tall, weathered wife, Lady William (Florence Mary Bootle-Wilbraham) Cecil. They toured New England, visited Philadelphia and Princeton, flew to Richmond. In Chicago last fortnight...
...pretty, but different. Kate was neat, chic, determined; Olivia dowdy and diffuse. Both were beside themselves with breathless ambition at the prospect of Lady Spencer's dance-Olivia's first. Their hard-put-to-it mother had relaxed so far as to let them invite a young Oxonian to escort them. Reggie turned out to be unattractive, unimpressionable; when he announced that he was planning to take Holy Orders the sisters wrote him off as a loss. Olivia, because she was a wallflower, met many new people but they were all queer or preoccupied, not advantageous. Kate...
...Oxonian & Cantabrigian readers may be annoyed at his pretended assumption that he finds it impossible to distinguish between the two universities, is constantly getting them mixed up. A turn-of-the-century diplomat, Author Baring says he found the diplomatic service split from top to bottom over the question "as to whether papers should be kept folded, as had been the habit in the 18th Century, or flat." When the more modern school seemed to have won out, "a certain Ambassador of the Old School was appointed . . . and had them all refolded again? the work of several months...