Word: saxon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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People of Tennessee are peculiarly an Anglo-Saxon Race, and ranks seven-tenths among the States of the Union in population-rich in agriculture, minerals, etc.; but the wealth of the State does not consist alone of its manufacturing enterprises, richness of its soil, the congeniality of its climate; but rather in the quality of its people...
From the pen of snowy-haired Ramsay MacDonald, champion shaker-of-hands-across-the-sea, and Prime Minister of Great Britain, has issued a statement in which diplomacy blends with astute perception. The shrewd Scot, who by a graceful and masterly manipulation of Anglo-Saxon heartstrings, by an incomparably dexterous muddling of issues, reached the pinnacle position of British statecraft, displays in his written comment the same piercing analysis and tempered sagacity which gained him his high post...
...they alone knew what. Some went riding in Couch motorboats on the Couch lake. One day the host took Messrs. Young and Dawes fishing but their catch was negligible. A few went along to hear Mr. Young make a speech at a nearby college. Mr. Dawes praised the Anglo-Saxon race at a nearby high school. That, as far as the public was concerned, was all that happened at Couchwood and that satisfied the curiosity of few outsiders...
England's prolific Poet Laureate writes a rousing tale of a Latin American revolution, in which all the best parts are filled by Anglo-Saxon hearts...
Poet Pound's magnum opus, the Cantos, is written in a form peculiar to him: a kind of poetic newspaper, its fragmentary comments ranging through half-a-dozen centuries, cast in as many languages, sprinkled with "unprintable" Anglo-Saxon terms whenever they come in handy. In Eleven New Cantos the interludes of recognizable poetry are rarer, the shorthand economic diatribes more frequent. Hopeful speculators who try to plot the curve of Poet Pound's current issue will be sadly shaken as it zooms from the 18th Century to the 20th, bumps down to the 15th, changes its orbit...