Word: anglo-saxon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Against a solution along these lines the chief forces this week were: 1) Anglo-Saxon public opinion that one must crack down on a "Big Bully"; 2) the Socialist and Trade Union movements on the continent and in Britain which ceaselessly petitioned the League to hurl "sanctions" against Boss Mussolini; and 3) Soviet Russia whose suave Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff unleased at Geneva a strong Red speech for Peace and against Fascist dreams of Empire...
...presume we will have to admit that that fiction is pretty well established in our jurisprudence. But it originated in the most egregious fiction that was ever established in any system, that is that the king can do no wrong, because at the time it was incorporated in the Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence the king did not do anything else but wrong, and the reason why the tribunals were denied to the citizens was because of the king's continuous wrongdoing...
...Manhattan, 28 years ago, Johnson soloed in the Brick Presbyterian Church, then sang in a Broadway musical comedy to earn enough money for study in Italy. There, as in the U. S., his plain Anglo-Saxon name was a handicap. He changed it to Eduardo di Giovanni, made his mark at La Scala before he was invited home. For more than a decade he has been the No. 1 North American-born tenor. Others may sing louder. But Johnson never errs as an artist, never fails to be an attractive, credible hero. As Roméo and Pell...
...omission that the matrons would allow the committee of ladies who sample our food to suffer. Neither is it a biological necessity on a par with whole some food. Yet it has a certain importance along with such trivialities as neckties, clean hands, and the absence of too many Anglo-Saxon nionosyllables from our speech--which can be summed up under the single word, "manners...
...borrow bootleg books got a chance to read the late D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, the most outspoken novel yet written on sexual unhappiness, its cause and cure. Those who read it remember, besides its paeans to physical passion, punctuated by Anglo-Saxon four-letter words and North-country dialect, its Lawrentian plot: how Lady Constance Chatterley, full-blooded young wife to a paralytic peer, sought fulfillment elsewhere and found it with Mellors, her husband's gamekeeper. Author Lawrence, no champion of neat endings, left his lovers looking forward to the beginning of their...