Word: anglo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Frenchmen know that there are too many Anglo-Saxons in France. So many that aristocratic Parisians are obliged to withdraw for privacy to the left bank of the Seine. So many that a Frenchman simply cannot escape them on the Riviera. Recently rich Louis Loucheur, not long since Minister of Finance (TIME, Dec. 7), decided to provide an asylum for Frenchmen in France, a retreat where open English vowels and nasal Yankee twangs would not affront the Latin...
...syndicate of rich Frenchmen which was announced last week to have acquired 100 acres on the verdant Cap d'Antibes between blatantly expensive Nice and augustly expensive Cannes. On these charmed 100 acres an Eden sacred to Frenchmen of wealth and position will be established and guarded against Anglo-Saxons...
During the intervals of debate on the Public Safety Bill, many a Deputy amused himself by flaying vociferously His Brittanic Majesty's Governor General of the Irish Free State, Timothy Michael Healy, jovial Anglo-Irish barrister, author of that illuminating volume Why Ireland is not Free. Indiscreet, the Governor General is reported to have recently declared: "The longer the Sinn Feiners boycott the Dail the better pleased I shall...
...next production was a sort of relapse. Nothing is more difficult to do well than Italian comedies of the eighteenth century. And in selecting Carlo Goldini's "The Liar," the Dramatic Club failed to realize that the Anglo-Saxon audiences to which it played could not easily catch the spirit of the gay Venetian. Goldini is not done now--even by the most artistically advanced of professionals; for an amateur organization he is almost impossible...
...Philippine nation from external aggression dictated by the biologic urge of self-preservation. National necessity and economic imperatives have proved the impotence of the diplomatists' declarations that their nations will respect political independence and territorial integrity. The sovereign independence of the defunct kingdom of Korea was guaranteed in the Anglo-Japanese Alliance of 1902, and yet in 1905 an amendment to this alliance gave Japan imperialistic rights in Korea, and shortly after, the political independence of Korea was a thing of the past. Such would be the case with the Philippine Islands. They are too strategically located in the West...