Word: saxon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saxon princelings followed not religion like the Egyptians, but sanitation and sentiment, which Christianity was obliged to salute as soon as the sensibilities of churchgoers objected to the smell of corporeal corruption within churches. The hearts of the Popes from Sixtus V (1590) to Benedict XV (1922) are in the church of Sts. Vincent & Anastasius in Rome...
Etymologically, I believe, the word gate derives from Anglo-Saxon meaning open, welcome The superintendent of the Yard and Buildings and his underlings, the Yard Cops, would do well to take this to heart...
...Harvard Yard, besides being a venerable area, a blessed couple of acres, owns that peculiar charm which belongs to things and institutions which have never known the labelling of a surveying committee, a place with its own ancient and particular name. Rough earthy Anglo-Saxon names, like the "Yard," "Rotten Row," Cape Cod," have an indigenous correctness which latinic titles ("Esplanade," "Boulevard" etc) can never claim, especially when transported to foreign soil...
When the "brain trust" was being formed during last year's campaign President Roosevelt naturally included the man who had divided Harvard into two camps -Frankfurter and anti-Frankfurters. Anglo-Saxon-minded defenders of common law and the case system of teaching it deplored his long lectures on administrative and constitutional law. The Frankfurters pointed with pride to the way he sent his pupils home to wrangle for weeks over one of his neat, sharp questions. Put in an abrupt, jerky voice, they were usually questions of broad social significance. Public-minded, unselfish, a disciple of Liberals Oliver Wendell...
Miller (Christian Science Monitor), Authors James Saxon Childers, Walter Stanley Campbell ("Stanley Vestal"), Elmer Holmes Davis, Christopher Darlington Morley...