Word: saxonizes
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...powers and duties up here from the States. . . . We have only this choice: either to turn the American people loose, subject to the governmental power of an appointed personnel ... or we have got to make it possible for the citizen to resort to the only place under the Anglo-Saxon system of government that an aggrieved person can go to, and that is the courts...
Mayor Levi pronounces his name lee-vie, is distressed when he hears it called lee-vee, regards his ancestry as Anglo-Saxon. He is friendlier to the Jewish influx than was Founder Fisher, whose companies' hotels still bar Jews...
...greatest cathedrals is Ely, a Norman-to-perpendicular pile which stands on an eminence commanding the fen country of Cambridgeshire. Named for the eels abounding in its waters, eely Ely is a market town of only 8,000-odd inhabitants. Its fairs, held on the feast of Saxon St. Etheldreda (or St. Audrey, whence the word tawdry), are still nominally run by the Bishop of Ely. There is not much else for His Lordship to do in Ely; nearby Cambridge has more religious life, and there the Ely diocesan conferences are held. Yet, because he is a member...
Wagner: Die Meistersinger, Act 3 (Saxon State Orchestra, Dresden State Opera chorus, Karl Bohm conducting, with Hans Hermann Nissen, Torsten Ralf, Margarete Teschemacher and other singers; Victor: 2 volumes, 30 sides). Superb singing, perfect teamwork, and the latest touches in crystal-clear recording, make this complete and bulky last act of Wagner's great comic opera the record of the year...
...endless hour between Fine Arts and Anglo-Saxon class. The Vagabond has always found it difficult to brook the transition from an hour of Italian art to the toothy language of his primitive ancestors. Even the free hour between the two, spent wandering about the Yard clucking at pigeons (if that is what one does at pigeons), never seems to set him in the proper frame of mind...