Word: anglo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Mme. Olga Novikoff, 77, famed Russian political writer; in London. She defended the Slavonic cause, endeavored to promote an Anglo-Russian alliance, worked with and on Gladstone, Matthew Arnold, Carlyle. She is credited with having averted an Anglo-Russian...
...corps diplomatique straining its brains and buttons to preserve the international amenities when at one fell blow they are violated without pomp or ceremony by a pictorial incitement to popular mutiny. It remains a shining platitude that all the efforts of suave diplomatists to weld Anglo-Saxonism into a case-hardened ideal are as a potato to a sitting hen in the face of the deft strokes of irresponsible, irrepressible caricaturists and others. Charles Dickens, to use the words of Carlyle, caused "all Yankee- doodle-dom" to blaze up "like one universal soda bottle," when he ventured to criticize some...
...defending himself. His latest caricature may cause an explosion or two, but statesmen's hair will hardly turn prematurely grey over night, nor will an epidemic of Anglophobia convulse the U. S. More chuckles than anything can be expected to ruffle the Atlantic. Nonetheless, the danger is latent. Anglo-American friendship rests on the good feelings of each people and that disposition is not shown by the diplomats but by the artists and authors...
Free and Equal. Ten years ago, they produced in California a Negro story. It argued that Negroes were inferior to whites and should not join in Anglo-Saxon competition. It married a white girl to a Negro to prove its point. The producers found their feet suddenly frozen and the picture was put by. It is out again and might just as well go back. It is unpleasant, insincere, ten years old and looks...
...Religion in Cambridge" receives due attention. Under the guise of inviting us to Satanism and its forbidden fruits, the writer gets in some stout work in behalf of the Anglo-Catholic position in matters ecclesiastical, and conveys certain, prosy information as to the local status of that denomination, which might adorn any church year book. Appleton Chapel is dismissed as a "sad memorial, to the dry bones of New England Liberalism." So be it. I preach there occasionally. Who am I to question it? But I can subscribe whole heartedly to the statement that "the most deeply religious element...