Word: anglo-saxon
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Since his first film break in Private's Progress, he has played virtually every Anglo-Saxon subspecies from crook to cad, fop to daredevil. He does most of his own stunts, trembling with fear...
...forth the Klan's goal in terms of Christian morality v. sin. The enemies of America, the Klan proclaimed, were booze, loose women, Jews, Negroes, Roman Catholics (whose "dago" Pope was bent on taking over the U.S.), and anybody else who was not a native-born white Protestant Anglo-Saxon. Many churchmen across the nation acclaimed the Klan's program, and in the South especially, Methodist and Baptist clergymen lent the K.K.K. massive support. It was not long before it blossomed into a mighty nationwide organization that claimed to number in its hooded ranks about...
Unfortunately, there are far too few Volpes and Brookes and Murphys and Fongs in the Republican ranks, and our party gives the appearance of being an organization of white Anglo-Saxon Protestants. America is a nation of racial, religious and ethnic minorities. Overall, even the white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are a minority. I admit, regretfully, that when you attend any meeting of Republicans on the national scale, the faces you see and the names you hear are rarely Negro, Italian-American, Polish-American, Irish-American, or Jewish, or any of the other groups that combine to make up our country...
...government had gone to Michigan and New York. Why? Well, first, that's where big business is. And second, the Cabinet, while long on brains, was somewhat short on politics. As a result, the Eisenhower Administration turned out, in the eyes of the public, to be almost exclusively Anglo-Saxon and Protestant, even though Eisenhower himself remained the idol of all elements in the country...
...Hogben's excursion through the history, and past the astonishing universality, of the mother tongue. It may be enough just to discover why, from some hillbilly throats, it escapes as hit-that was how the English said it in Chaucer's time. Or that the perfectly good Anglo-Saxon verb clyppan yielded to a Norman import (embracen) and survives in English today only in the humble paper clip...