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Word: anglo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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That title is only the last on an imposing list: Bencher of the Middle Temple (1904); Member of Parliament from Reading (1904-13); Knight (1910); Lord Chief Justice of England (1913-21); Baron (1914); President of the Anglo-French Loan Commission to the U. S. (1915); Viscount Reading (1916); Special Envoy to the U. S. (1917); Viscount Erleigh and Earl of Reading (1917); High Commissioner and Special Ambassador to the U. S. (1918); Viceroy and Governor General of India (1921-26) (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Marquis | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

...friends remember him as a bookworm of athletic prowess at Eton and Christ Church College, Oxford. His father, who is considered the foremost Anglo-Catholic of the day, is said to regard his son's equal devotion to that faith with satisfaction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: New Viceroy | 4/12/1926 | See Source »

...England. He doesn't even die, after the reader is expecting it impatiently, so that the nice English family in the story can solve their financial difficulties with his money. And the head of the nice family, after refusing to be Uncle Bliss' English agent (for he is Anglo-Saxon and independent) comes home from France with the family and becomes Uncle Bliss' agent without a quiver. The book doesn't prove a thing: first impressions to the contrary, it doesn't even try to. Perhaps that is why it makes passable, sometimes delightful reading...

Author: By J. B. K. ., | Title: THE DINOSAUR'S EGG. by Edmund Candler. E. P. Dutton and Company, New York. 1926. $2.50. | 4/10/1926 | See Source »

France Feared Anglo-German Friendship "1914 was a good time to stage the final act in this great political and diplomatic drama, from the Franco-Russian point of view for several reasons. Most important of these was the growing friendliness between Germany and England. France and Russia were afraid that if they waited too long England might remain neutral in case of war which would be a fatal blow to their hopes of certain victory over the Central Powers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRANCE AND RUSSIA TO BLAME FOR WAR--BARNES | 4/9/1926 | See Source »

...professor it was, too, who was pursuing the even tenor of his lecture when a student raised his hand for a question and inadvertently he recognized him. The student asked his question and the professor turned to his notes. "It doesn't say," he admitted. More guarded was the Anglo-Saxon instructor who lost his copy of Caedmon and dismissed the class for a week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FEEDERS OF FACTS | 3/31/1926 | See Source »

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