Word: saxon
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...editorially, takes to be the real Boston, an "ethnic minority" conscious that the prisoners are communists and foreigners. It contrasts this state of things with the political temper of Chicago where it finds, an agglomerate ethnic majority, conscious that another and more aristocratic portion of the city is Anglo-Saxon and descend from grandparents native born, has just elected as mayor, one who jollied and humored them...
There have been other names; less genteel, derived more directly from the Saxon, but still--other names. Police records describe the state as that of "intoxication." The Innocent bystander is content to analyze it as merely "drunk". And the young collegiate, ever ready to increase his vocabulary, has a host of terms in stock, from the concise "tight" to the quaintness of "potted". But it has remained for the W. C. T. U. or its New England branch, to define the condition with due branch, to define the condition with due respect to the recent amendment. If or when...
...approximately Nationalist "President" in the Anglo-Saxon sense...
...with the traditions of the North American film at all. He rather objects, for instance, to the idea that all children from south of the Rio Grande grow up to be craven desperadoes to be slaughtered or knocked out by iron-fisted vigilantes with curly hair, alleged Anglo-Saxon ancestry, and IT. He has a sort of a case, perhaps. But these Latins never seem to have a proper sense of good, clean fun and don't understand what an important and necessary part they play in film land...
...pursue this system will read particularly widely. The other plan is intended more for the man who means to pursue the study of English farther. It requires at least six elective courses in English, at least two others in English or allied fields, and a reading knowledge of Anglo-Saxon, the earliest form of the language. It is desired that all candidates for honors in English shall have some knowledge of Continental literature; among the modern literatures, next in importance to French and German is Italian. Of special importance are the classics. In fact, if a man plans to proceed...