Word: saxonism
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...patch up the botch Jehovah has made of keeping mankind in running order, Jehovah will repay our time and expense by deputing an angel to put us at the top of St. Peter's waiting list. We admire King Arthur, who gave Anglia a good administration and checked the Saxon crime wave more than Sir Galahad who went off by himself to catch a glimpse of the Holy Grail, although the latter achieved what we prize above all else, Success...
...great actor planning to enter on his greatest artistic triumph. All this is somewhat disappointing; and it may be that, in an excess of caution Mr. Barrymore is hiding behind this casualness. Still, it has a natural air; and, although the reader might expect soul-stirring revelations, his Anglo-Saxon temperament is vaguely relieved to find that this artist leave such things to the imagination and keeps his stirrings deep within him. It is too true that "show-business" is a business first, and an art afterwards, even in the published memoirs of a great actor...
...McCullough rode into town on a two-cylinder vehicle, The Ramblers, and proved it. The resilient cigar and long, fur overcoat are still with them as they amble about Tia Juana with murderous Mexican villains in sinister pursuit. An off-and-on love affair, and a charming dancer, Marie Saxon, are tossed in for good measure. Presented as a musical comedy, The Ramblers is really an excuse for bringing back Comedians Clark and McCullough in a prolonged skit. It is a good excuse...
...been called a comedy of American low life by which is meant that the characters are not Anglo-Saxon, do not speak copper plate English, nor live in trim little apartments furnished with a show of opulence. The scenery is therefore different, a bit less polished, and a relief from drawing rooms. Then again, the play is unusually terse. At moments, the characters are voluble enough,--when they deviate into politics or prohibition,--but at the moments that mark the dramatic progress of the piece, they have just those few words for which the situation calls. The rest...
...time Dr. Gessler was standing on a little knoll near Leuthen, Saxony, with General Mueller, commander of the Saxon Reichswehr. A machine gun battery, using ammunition left over from the World War, was firing a barrage over their heads. Suddenly General Mueller clutched his side, fell dead. A bullet, its charge weakened by age, had fallen short...