Word: saxonism
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...write English very well, the language is even less native to Ireland than it is to the U. S. The typical Irish writer wears his English with a difference. Racial bias toward tragic fancy, racial prejudice against successful fact give the Irish writer a peculiar angle on even plain Saxon themes. Author Stuart's theme is patriotism-which to an Irishman is partly like politics and partly like being in love. His tale, which starts realistically enough and wanders through dirty Dublin streets, ends toward the stars...
Bravely overcoming Anglo-Saxon prejudice, Admiral Kelly absorbed the piece of tail that was his portion, suffered no ill effect. A bit of the neck went to Chu Chao-hsin, Inspector General of Foreign Affairs in the Canton Government, who ate it with relish and promptly died. Doctors opined that he had swallowed a bit of "poisonous bone," doubtless poisoned by gland secretion...
...elbow, should not become unduly restless. "The Late Mr. Christopher Bean" is neither a tragedy nor a comedy: it is a medley of dramatic ingenuities and pure drama which above all, never takes itself seriously It marks a distinct step away from pedantry and formalism, and towards the Anglo-Saxon ideal that the function of drams is to provide a maximum of entertainment, and a minimum of conscious instruction or dogmatic humor...
...Manhattan last week His Lordship hailed the U. S. as the leader of the Anglo-Saxon race which had created the "greatest of the Western civilizations.'' Said he: "America will face incredible prosperity once the world has accepted the great truths that we must live and govern our nations, not for ourselves, but for others." His Lordship also took part in the 17th annual Good Will Congress of the World Alliance for International Friendship through the Churches. Present were Germany's onetime Foreign Minister Julius Curtius, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Editor Michael Williams of The Commonweal, Editor...
...edition or in one of the European editions smuggled into the U. S., this is the first "authorized abridged" version. It is authorized by Lawrence's widow, would never have been permitted by Lawrence himself. For the book, now made respectable by excisions of many descriptive passages and Anglo-Saxon words, has also become suggestive and otherwise pointless. From a glorification of proper love-making and a sermon against sexual wrongs. Lady Chatterley's Lover (Lawrence once thought of calling it Tenderness} has become merely an ordinary adulterous tale. The plot of the original and the bowdlerized version...