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Word: anglo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regard the English speaking union as the most dangerous organization in the world. The grestest menace with which we now are threatened is the advance of the Anglo Sexon. The agliation for closer alliance is drawing the world into two hostile camps, the Anglo-Saxon and the Latin. By foolishly listening to it we have already alienated all of South America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TONGUE-TIED | 11/18/1927 | See Source »

Whereupon the British Government let it be known that it would permit no nation other than itself to build the dam, holding that it had power to prevent the undertaking by virtue of the Anglo-Abyssinian Treaty of 1902, signed with Negusa Nagasth (King of Kings) Menelik...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ABYSSINIA: Dam Row | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

...right to prevent the building of the dam, seems to be a moot point. The conclusion of the Italo-British Treaty, which divided Abyssinia into spheres of influence, has been hotly denounced by Ras Taffari at the League of Nations, of which Abyssinia is a member. Moreover, the Anglo-Abyssinian treaty has been called unilateral (benefiting only Britain) and therefore not valid, according to the League. If this is so, Ras Taffari would merely have to denounce it to make it null and void and Britain could prevent the building of the dam only by force of arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ABYSSINIA: Dam Row | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

They were at Albany for the third Anglo-Catholic Congress.* This is the U. S. organization of Episcopalians who wish their church to approximate the older doctrines and rituals which still guide the Roman Catholic Church, but without subordination to the papal system. Their wishes have caused great controversy within their church. But few, even among Episcopalians, understand the matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Anglo-Catholic Congress | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...which have successfully recounted one of the classic themes of literature. In the first place, "Les Miserables" was produced in France with an entirely French cast so that we are spared the painful experience of seeing Hollywood blondes in the role of early nineteenth century Parisian beauties and handsome Anglo-Saxon heroes in the part of Latin apaches. In the second place, there is scarcely a flaw in the artistic perfection of the producers' achievement. Scenes, costumes, and settings are consistently as they should be; anachronistic details do not crop out to disrupt the atmosphere of a distant time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/3/1927 | See Source »

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