Word: anglo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...late Woodrow Wilson, according to the Kaiser, desired to go down in history as "the greatest Englishman" of his time. According to His ex-Majesty, he " 'sacrificed American lives to the Moloch of Anglo-Saxon supremacy...
Lord Curzon, apropos of the Anglo-Russian Treaty: "The whole annals of our country contain nothing more humiliating or more disgraceful than this treaty. It and the Campbell case show that the Labor Government is not master of itself; it is in the hands of its gunmen. As soon as the automatic pistol is raised, up go the hands of the Prime Minister...
...frontier (i.e., what Britain said was the Iraq side), requested the League for an immediate Council meeting to deal with the difficulty. The Council of the League informed Sir Eric Drummond, League Secretary General, that it would hold "as soon as possible" an extraordinary session to consider the Anglo-Turkish dispute...
Germany regards herself as the home of opera. She rather resents any non-Teutonic effort. The very idea of an Anglo-Saxon operatic composition seems to her a little absurd? certainly farfetched. For this reason no American has hitherto ventured with impunity to present the musical dramas of his making within her borders...
...research to find out why families which had for generations sent their sons to Harvard, gradually ceased to be represented in the University. The impossibility of finding records of the maternal sides forced him to abandon the attempt, but he said that he had secured irrefutable proof that the Anglo Saxon stock in America is dying...