Word: cantabrigian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although his original venture into basketball here was on an informal basis, some of the glory of the first formal postwar team was conferred upon Stahl in his elevation to head coach of the Cantabrigian quintet...
...Johnson won a Harvard Lampoon citation for the second year running. Last year he shared Worst Discovery honors with Frank Sinatra; now the Cantabrigian funnymen acclaimed his acting in Thrill of a Romance as the year's Worst Single Performance (male). Eddie Bracken was chosen Most Unamusing Comedian. Oscar Winner Joan Crawford, 38, was acclaimed Oldest Actress, with Joan Bennett, 36, getting honorable mention...
Britons are given to labeling themselves with strange-sounding titles indicative of their respective towns, viz.: Oxford, Oxonian; Cambridge, Cantabrigian, which are the most famous. There are others throughout Great Britain, often piquant and quaint, like Liverpool, Liverpudlian; Blackpool, Blackpudlian, and perhaps best of all Giggleswick, Giggleswicket...