Word: sassenachs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whenever possible, refuses to live in the Viceregal Lodge in Phoenix Park, will wear no English clothes, sit on no English chair. He prefers to be known by his Gaelic name, Domnhall Ua Buachalla, but will answer to Donal, and insists that his office is not that of a Sassenach governor general, but a good Gaelic Seanascal...
Though there is little love lost between the Irish and the English, between the Scots and their Sassenach cousins there is a friendlier feeling. The English regard the Scots with mixed admiration as a nation of sturdy but unconsciously humorous characters; the Scots view the English with more or less kindly contempt. Scottish Author Macdonell, at home on both sides of the Tweed, has written the kind of hilarious, good-natured (i.e. flattering) satire on England which Englishmen love. U. S. readers may enjoy it too, unless they have Irish blood in them, in which case they may be annoyed...
...Swinging up Fifth Avenue with stately steps and slow, the customary St. Patrick's Day parade had just reached the reviewing stand. Then it was that Skiron [northwest wind] turned Sassenach. Like the Assyrian of old he came down on the fold. In a jiffy he knocked off hats from every head. A thousand silk toppers of assorted vintages went tossing on the breeze. They were borne skyward but not on the wings of song. Coat tails, hitherto sedate enough, designed to cover substantial parts of the human anatomy, became possessed of seven devils. With hilarious impudence they flapped...