Word: anglo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intended to allow Chiang Kaishek, the Chinese Nationalist Generalissimo, to assume control of the French Concession. Since U. S. and British marines were heaping up more sandbags and stringing more barbed wire every day to defend their quarter, the attitude of the French and Japanese caused extreme resentment among Anglo-Saxons at Shanghai...
...fall in with the traditions of the North American film at all. He rather objects, for instance, to the idea that all children from south of the Rio Grande grow up to be craven desperadoes to be slaughtered or knocked out by iron-fisted vigilantes with curly hair, alleged Anglo-Saxon ancestry, and IT. He has a sort of a case, perhaps. But these Latins never seem to have a proper sense of good, clean fun and don't understand what an important and necessary part they play in film land...
...clock in Sever 35, Dr. Baxter will lecture on "Anglo-American Relations, 1853-60." Anglo-American relations, whether they be studied in the popular form of the Page letters or from history textbooks, are interesting for the way they are woven and entwined into the history of the world. Even the study of the comparatively brief span between 1853 and 1860 should prove worthwhile...
...until it is as easy to discuss Catholicism as it is now to discuss Methodism will a certain portion of the American people recover from fears of the 'Roman menace.'" In the Atlantic Monthly, snowy-haired, red-cheeked Charles C. Marshall, Manhattan lawyer and self-styled Anglo-Catholic posed "honest and pertinent" questions in "An Open Letter to the Honorable Alfred E. Smith." Retired Lawyer Marshall was once a partner of famed Law yer Choate; now he makes a hobby of Church History and Canon Law. In Albany, Governor Smith read the questions, promised to make a fair...
...pursue this system will read particularly widely. The other plan is intended more for the man who means to pursue the study of English farther. It requires at least six elective courses in English, at least two others in English or allied fields, and a reading knowledge of Anglo-Saxon, the earliest form of the language. It is desired that all candidates for honors in English shall have some knowledge of Continental literature; among the modern literatures, next in importance to French and German is Italian. Of special importance are the classics. In fact, if a man plans to proceed...