Word: zuleika
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...rather, the candidate for Nirvana) who is by way of being pope in Tibet of present day Buddhism. A new Buddha is, however, predicted for each cycle, and it is such, evidently, that Jâli for a time thought himself. His exotic career at Cambridge is delightfully Zuleika Dobsonesque, and artificial as his rustic life in the Bois...
THESE CHARMING PEOPLE-Michael Arlen-Doran ($2.50). A whimsical satire of ultra-fashionable British "society," to be put on the shelf along with Max Beerbohm's Zuleika Dobson. For instance, there is one sketch, about a gentleman who had been "a millionaire until the War broke out, when he at once became a multimillionaire. He was offered a knighthood for his services on the field of finance, but humbly refused the honor in a letter which, his newspapers said, should be a historic model for all letters refusing knighthoods. Later on he refused a baronetcy in the same simple...
...United States. This scheme makes traitors of some of America's finest young men!" No action was taken by the Board. But some patriot somewhere, who does not know how incurably American the Rhodes scholars are considered at Oxford and who has not read Max Beerbohm's Zuleika Dobson, will probably "do something about the matter" very soon...
...Oxford team was educated at Eton, where he became Captain of the School, was Double First at Oxford in Classics, rowed in a Christ Church boat for four years and also rowed at Henley. He has been Secretary of the Canning Club (the butt of Mr. Max Beerbohm's "Zuleika Dobson") and President of the Carlton Club, both of which are conservative political clubs. At Oxford he has been Secretary-Librarian and is now President of the Oxford Union Debating Society. He is a nephew of the Marchioness of Aberdeen who came to America on a mission for Ireland some...