Word: saxonism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Signer D'Annunzio, foremost of Italy's poets and World War heroes, spoke outside the canons of Anglo-Saxon good taste but spoke the truth. None the less, Hearst Editor Brisbane, conqueror upon no field of arms, and certainly of no spirit so exalted as the great Duse's, was moved to carp, last week, at Poet Gabriels...
...profound is the spiritual veneration of Italians for their quite literally "beloved Papa" (the Pope) that, where only the transient material world is concerned, a jest may be thus bandied between poet and Pope without creating the scandal which would ensue in Anglo-Saxon lands. During Holy Year (1925) carefree Latins were to be seen daily flinging banana skins and chocolate wrappers upon the floor of St. Peter's, and greeting the Pope when he appeared with just such excited squeals and shrieks as a large family of happy children bestow upon their temporal father...
Unless a really entrancing sin can be soon devised, the younger generation will be forced to look for their satisfactions in productive labor. Along the cheerless stretches of existence, many adventurous successes may be achieved. As Edna Ferber's popular novel, "So Big" showed, the Saxon capacity for work is a saving grace not to be ignored. By the use of a modicum of imagination, the seeming oblivion of toil may be turned into a romance...
Since the Anglo-Saxon nations have decided for conventional security by majority vote, they have taken much of the more blatant drama out of government. For the thrills of sovereignty, a cabled connection with dictators or a censored story of revolution must suffice. When ballots replaced bullets in the determination of national policy, the obvious excitement left political life. In its place remain subtleties of verbal by play which not all can applaud...
These dwarfs and gnomes were the primitive Saxon miners of copper, lead, silver and nickelite (nickel arsenide) from mines which have been yielding their wealth for centuries. For 725 years, since the beginning of the 13th Century, a mine has been operated by the same company - the Mansfeld Mining and Smelting Co. - in Prussian-Saxony, northwest of Leipzig...