Word: saxonism
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...riddle of the Anglo-Saxon Puritanism of a city which is three-quarters descended from foreign stock, of the "intellectual, superiority" of a community which suffers the most ruthless and undiscriminating literary and dramatic censorship in America--this is the riddle which Mr. Beebe skilfully and sympathetically presents. He shows Boston the home of the Mathers, of Emerson, Longfellow, Holmes and Lowell, and Boston the scene of the-Sacco-Vanzetti riots, the John L. Sullivan fights, the James Michael Curley campaigns. He pictures the irreproachable dignity of State Street and the spectacle of the world's most notorious Tea Party...
...only in Kipling will probably not grasp the significance of the work of Conrad. The essay on Conrad, in the reviewer's opinion, is inadequate and misleading. Like the other essays it has a neatly phrased central thesis pigeon-holing its subject. Conrad, though Polish, "expressed a certain Anglo-Saxon ideal better, perhaps, than any other man of letters." He taught "a stoic philosophy of life, that of the British man of action." This generalization is so incomplete as to be seriously misleading. Captain MacWhirr may be stoical but he scarcely represents an Anglo-Saxon ideal. And from the expostulations...
...late Lewis Baker Warren left a bequest of $1,000,000 to Yale University to be used for scholarships to students "who shall be the sons of white Christian parents and Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian or Teutonic descent, both of whom were citizens of the United States and were born in America...
...strangest thing about this strange bequest is that Mr. Warren believed that it would be a memorial to the "best ideals and traditions of the Anglo-Saxon race, to which the United States owes its culture," and that the boys receiving scholarships of this character would "best exemplify" such traditions...
...cable out that in Ethiopia the local press had been ordered by the Emperor never to apply discourteous epithets to Benito Mussolini. Finally only genius could enable the Emperor to put himself-a frail, exquisite Semite who speaks French-on terms of friendly respect with robust Anglo-Saxon correspondents when they arrived in Addis Ababa and promptly nicknamed him "Little Charlie...