Word: saxonism
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...throughout France Caroline Chérie got a five rating on the Index of forbidden films: to be seen neither by adults nor children. Said Martine: "I'm flabbergasted! And what do they think about Mary Magdalene?" Author Cecil Saint-Laurent accused the church of yielding to Anglo-Saxon standards of prudery. But the film was passed by the French censorship, and with Cardinal Gerlier's unintentioned advertisement, Frenchmen flocked to see Caroline Chérie. Paris receipts in the first three weeks were $140,000. The film was rushed to the provinces...
...Cyrenaica, Winston Churchill rose in the House of Commons and said: "We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general." Even before he died in 1944, Erwin Rommel had achieved legendary status among his Anglo-Saxon foes. By now he has a safe niche among those defeated military commanders-Lee and Napoleon are outstanding examples-who rise at least equal to their conquerors in the esteem of the military experts. Brigadier Desmond Young's biography, Rommel, the Desert Fox, sold 300,000 copies in Britain...
...group, but to their country. Why, it is as silly to refer to Paul Robeson as a "traitor to the good name of the American Negro" as it would be to refer to Frederick Vanderbilt Field or Corliss Lament as "traitors to the good name of the American Anglo-Saxon...
Since she had previously stated that there had been no other applicants for the position, this sounded rather peculiar to me. On the basis of this unpleasant suspicion, and because our name is distinctly Jewish, I asked my husband to call the same number using an "Anglo-Saxon" name. He did so and was immediately connected with the man who had placed the ad, who told him that the job was open and gave an enthusiastic account of its advantages. To be absolutely certain, I then called again under a non-Jewish name and was given the same cordial treatment...
...next eight days, in scanty clothing and with almost no food, Yeo-Thomas wandered westward across the Saxon plain. Broken by torture, starvation and a chronic case of dysentery, his body somehow kept going, even when his mind was delirious. At last, just as he was about to make contact with the advancing U.S. forces, a German patrol picked him up. Weak as he was, Yeo-Thomas promptly organized another mass escape. One day later he staggered with his companions into an American outpost. "Don't shoot!" he shouted. "Escaping prisoners of war!" Said an American soldier: "Well...