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...Dutra's win again emphasized the transition of U. S. golf from an Anglo-Saxon monopoly to a polyglot profession. Ex-Champion Sarazen's extraction is Italian, ex-Champion Burke's is Lithuanian (Bur-kowski). Champion Dutra's forbears were, with the Espinosas. among California's early Spanish settlers. At 6 ft. 3 in. and 230 Ib., Dutra is one of the game's hugest players. Abroad last year with the Ryder Cup team he was caricatured as King Kong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sick Man at Merion | 6/18/1934 | See Source »

...realm of England, precariously united under the bewildering succession of Saxon Aelfreds and Aelfrics and Aedmonds, had been reduced to a sorry state by the Danish invasion. A Danish king had ruled it for years, and when the Saxon line regained the throne, Danish influence and Danish families still dictated to the country. Edward, called the Confessor, was a good man and later a canonized Saint, but a Danish earl and his sons dominated the king and wracked the land with their ambitions enterprises. The succession was obscured. There was Harold, who finally obtained it; there was Edward the Aetheling...

Author: By A. J. I., | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 4/20/1934 | See Source »

Undoubtedly there will be amendments, but the audacity of the proposal in the face of Anglo-Saxon traditions of law and fair dealing in individual relations will bear examination. The labor unions in a political year are striving to get every advantage they can. This is the heyday of their power...

Author: By David Lawrence, | Title: Today in Washington | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

...usually refer to the British Monarch as "George V,'' and couch the rest of the reference in language which suggests the outlook of a Kahlege Kid from the Bible Belt, rather than of the only newspaper with a modern orientated intelligence published in the Anglo-Saxon tongue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 12, 1934 | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

...Quean, from the Anglo-Saxon cwene, a low woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 12, 1934 | 2/12/1934 | See Source »

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