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...grand & glorious time. On Feb. 3, Dr. Owen was called upon by Augustus Maxwell Rode, controller and assistant treasurer of International Harvester Company of America, whose office is in Brussels. Mr. Rode and Dr. Owen had words. "Does this mean that your company doubts my bona fides?" drawled Oxonian Owen. Controller Rode stood his ground. On Feb. 12, Dr. Owen contemptuously offered to repay I. H. C., Ltd. out of his own pocket the whole $150,000 they had advanced. Did they really want it, with all that such a transaction would imply? They did. He wrote a check, which...
Oxford, Buenos Aires and Chicago are the three most intoxicated districts in the world according to the university's magazine "The Isis." The two cities have no designated reason for their debauchery, but the Oxonian undergraduates drink "from habit." Why "The Isis" should object to this is hard to understand when one realizes that huntsmen dress purely as a matter of habit...
...summoned before Referee Samuel Seabury, ordered up into the witness stand, like any common crook, put under oath, examined and cross-examined, twisted and tangled on her magisterial conduct. Dressed in green, holding herself stiffly erect, the onetime Brooklyn girl answered questions briefly, almost insolently, in pseudo-Oxonian accent. Her inquisitors attempted to show that she was a falsifier of her court's official record, a tyrant on the bench who petulantly bossed defendants around at the peril of their constitutional rights, a dispenser of justice toward women offenders far less merciful than male magistrates...
...notorious Oxford accent receives a double-barrelled crack from the two writers. To their critical eyes, the distorted and emasculated Oxonian drawl is readily imitated by those who would ape their betters. The snippishness of the typical don has had a wide effect in debasing the English speech...
...idiosyncrasies of American diction furnish a rich variety of also fronts. Around Cambridge certain students quickly assimilate a so-called Harvard accent along with class banners and Veritas shields. This dialect fortunately has no such widespread influence as the Oxonian, yet it does serve to stamp some Harvard men from Tampico to Timbuctoo. While the lingo of a telephone girl often prevents one from making embarrassing remarks to the wrong person, the Harvard accent has no significance beyond indicating that its possessor has got the wrong number...