Word: saxonism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Janey's insistence is cut short by the arrival of her Anglo-Saxon swains, who defy all manner of peril and whisk her off in the very plane that brought her. Her ingratitude for their bravery displays itself in scenes and sorrowings, until her hero appears in the night, tracked to her very window by posses of police...
...month later in Paris the bandit's servant presents Janey with a ring of "three great pinky globes of pearls"-souvenir d'amour. But a year later she tells her devoted Anglo-Saxon that what she had felt for di Bari had not been the real thing: she had only thought she was in love. But now. . . . So she gives the American her "glowing beauty . . . the liquid eyes, the satin red cheeks, the cap of loose curls," and a portly income...
...sturdy pages to support his long crimson and white train. At one side of the Altar sat Her Majesty, Mary, Queen and Empress, clad in a long, shimmering cloak of gold tissue with hat to match. In sombre contrast was the Cross Bearer, his face obscured by an early Saxon monkish cowl. The high purpose of His Majesty in convoking the Order, for the fourth time in the 18 years of his reign, came to august fruition as he proceeded to induct twelve new Knights of the Grand Cross of the Bath...
...examination was thoroughly academic, covering English literature from the earliest Anglo-Saxon poetry down to Thomas Hardy, with only a few questions on William Shakespeare or the late 19th century writers. One question was to "show by an analysis of the content, style or diction of three of the following passages in what ways they are characteristic of their authors or of the times in which they were written." The passages were taken from William Langland, Edmund Spenser, Samuel Johnson, Charles Lamb, Lord Byron...
...Anglo-Saxon poetry and Mediaeval English literature, largely that of Chaucer, formed the material for the topics in the first division...