Word: nordics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...precision it is told how, on Nov. 23, 1924, the 16-year-old Duchess of Kendal, later to be known as Orena, was cast upon an Afric isle when her yacht was riven with electric bolts from an oxeye tornado. There she found another "bantling of fate," whose Nordic features suggested that he was an atavism, or at least a primeval anachronism; in any case, a monad. Soon he was able to convince her, however, that he was descended from the Child Crusaders of the 13th century, of noble birth-in fact, a Duke of Lorraine. His ancestors, she recalled...
...course the American public is very glad that Commander Byrd is both American and a Nordic. For there is in those facts further proof that in Americanism and Nordicism lie germs of greatness which never take on alien soil. But there is sufficient reason why at this time true pride should be expressed that in an age so mechanical as to be morose, so intricate as to lose its intrigue one human has enough of the joie de vivre to wish to risk...
...description of the Old American type thus evolved is quite unlike the European and comic-sheet conception of a thrust-jawed, loud-voiced, long-skulled Nordic "American." The Old American is not a Nordic type, in the first place. He retains the physical characteristics of his British ancestors, who were just as near an Alpine type as a Nordic.* He is mesocephalic (medium-skulled, between "long" and "round" or "short." He is tallest of all the large groups of white men. His hair is medium in color, rarely bright blond in adults, almost never black. His eyes tend...
...assumption of both a cultural and a racial aspect makes this renaissance the logical reaction to the fashionable Nordic propaganda of late years. But the suggestion of a cultural and racial alignment of Teuton against Mediterranean is rather formidable in the contemplation. A further thought, however, will convince that the turbulent and comparatively poor nations of the south can be imagining nothing so wild as conflict to secure their racial dignity. It is much more likely that the progress of Pan Latinism will find the Latins trying to emulate the more successful features of northern society, its industry, its educational...
Second only to the Nordic legend in much of our self-consciousness comes our linguistic pride in the English tongue. It lies at the base of what is commonly called Anglo-Saxon supremacy. And discussion of it would appeal to me, and I shall be sure to go to Sever 8 at 10 to hear Dr. Magoun in English 75. His subject is "English as a World Language...