Word: saxonism
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Smith College's Eleanor Shipley Duckett, 68, crisp, brisk author and scholar of Latin and medieval literature (Anglo-Saxon Saints and Scholars; Gateway to the Middle Ages) whose Latin 28 was one of Smith's most uncut classes. A D.Lit. from the University of London, Miss Duckett for years shared a trim white house with her West Highland white terrier Gregory (named after Gregory the Great) and Novelist Mary Ellen Chase (Silas Crockett, The Bible and the Common Reader); she has long celebrated the completion of each Chase book by buying its author an ice cream cone...
...sense, Ambrose Metcalfe had courted death; he was a black-haired, buck-toothed gunman with insolent eyes and heavy fists and he had recklessly made enemies. Violent life and violent death had been a part of-Harlan County since clannish men with Anglo-Saxon names had settled in its isolated creeks and hollers after the Revolution...
Rough, tough Louis Ruppel limped into the Manhattan offices of Collier's and cast a sardonic glance around. Most of new Editor Ruppel's worried staff, who had heard about his temper, his Anglo-Saxon expletives and "off-with-their-heads" methods, half-expected to be eaten alive. Editor Ruppel, though still recovering from a spinal operation, did not entirely disappoint them...
...teen-aged boy dared another to seduce the school's middle-aged housekeeper, Assistant Headmaster Edward Reynolds had cracked, "I'll bet you a pound to a penny that you don't." Another witness said that the children were forever talking about sex in "short Anglo-Saxon words." A former matron at the school admitted having given one girl a contraceptive, though she recalled that Headmaster Copping had bawled...
...moving toward an "Anglo-Saxon Alliance...