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...case excepted, when he alludes to the famous five letter word of Cambronne; but since the word evokes much laughter from the insanely practical Frenchmen, one may strike on the solution of this little mystery without resorting to an encyclopedia by wondering what would shock a staid Anglo Saxon. Hillel Bernstein writes simple prose, gently mocking everything in France by la France, and not forgetting to take a poke at some of our noble customs and institutions such as the "Busters" which vaguely resembles the American Legion, or the Gold Star Legation. Bernstein's satire will surely amuse you, provided...
...Charles Edward Coughlin, radiorator of Detroit's Shrine of the Little Flower, utterly antagonistic to Mrs. Sanger's movement, brought down the house: "The Negroes are out-begetting the Anglo-Saxon and Celtic races in this country. So are the Poles. . . . Distribution is what we need. There aren't enough hungry mouths in this country to consume the wheat we raise...
...President Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hinden burg last week lay a letter heavy with Dutch seals. It contained a dignified appeal from Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, Queen of The Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau and Duchess of Mecklenburg. Her Majesty asked only what seemed simple Anglo-Saxon Justice. The death penalty, she urged, should not be inflicted retroactively on her famed subject, the dim-witted Dutch brick mason Marinus van der Lubbe. At the time he set fire to the German Reichstag there was no death penalty for such an act. It was hastily decreed, on the day after...
...pound.* "The original intention of the contract was to prevent the loss from falling upon the bondholder should sterling become depreciated," argued counsel for the bondholders, and this view the Lords upheld. Because the U. S. Supreme Court gives great weight to pertinent decisions at the fountainhead of Anglo-Saxon law, holders of U. S. gold clause bonds hoped that last week's decision will help them when their suits come up in the U. S. Supreme Court. The Commons- ¶Weighed every carefully chosen word uttered by Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain as he consented to allude...
Dwelling on an English Parnassus which has a traditionally bucolic landscape, Authors Warner & Ackland have a modern liking for slow, casual rhythms, unobtrusive rhymes, which make their precise metaphors seem more surprising by contrast. They have the acute feeling for country sights & sounds at which Anglo-Saxon poets are supposed to excel: for them the air often seems