Word: anglo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wondered at, then, that the weather forms the first staple of conversation at Oxford; that it is, in fact, the first of a number of interests which the Englishman and the foreigner find in common at Oxford. The part which the weather plays in fostering Anglo-American friendship is not to be underestimated...
...form a $70,000,000 unit controlling some 300 British theatres. Gaumont British Corporation acquired control of Provincial Cinematograph Theatres Ltd. Gaumont has been both producer and exhibitor; Provincial is solely an exhibition chain. Gaumont has a sound-picture device, called the "British acoustics system." There is also an Anglo-German "talkie," better than British "acoustics," comparable with the U.S. talking picture machines. Either British acoustics or the Anglo-German mechanism will presumably be installed in the Gaumont houses, to the exclusion of U.S. sound pictures...
...Stories. When Victoria's granddaughter, German Alix of Hesse, came to her new Russian home as affianced bride of the Cesarevitch, the emotions of an emotional people ran riot, mingling curiosity and doubt with vague glamorous expectations and pity. Of Anglo-German lineage-would she sympathize with Slavic-Byzantine fancies and foibles? Profoundly religious, she had resisted a change of faith, then, suddenly veered, passionately to avow Greek orthodoxy-was it for love of the Cesarevitch, or for ulterior reasons? Considering the influences of liberalism, political if not moral, at her British grandmother's court-would she encourage...
Newsman Steele concluded: "In the interest of Anglo-American amity it is hoped that Tunney does not carry out his intention of winding his cane about the neck of some persistent scribe, because the English are peculiar about such little matters, and likely would send Mr. Tunney to the jug, ex-champion or no ex-champion, Lauder millions or no Lauder millions.* And that would be some story...
...Maddy of the University of Michigan School of Music, worked on the details of a plan whereby a National High School Orchestra of some 150 of the most talented high school musicians will go next summer to Europe, play at the World Conference on Education at Geneva, at the Anglo-American Music Conference at Lausanne, perhaps in London, Berlin, other capitals...