Word: saxonizes
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...always with that reverence expected of devotees. "While here we have the ox built for beef and for service who might have been president with that face if he had started in some other line of work." Before he had seen any bullfights himself, Hemingway had the usual Anglo-Saxon prejudice against them, but ''I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death." Before he had seen many corridas he forgot his prejudice, became first interested, then enthusiastic. The bullfight, says Hemingway...
...confused tangle of issues, political and religious, imperial and native, which serves as background to Gandhi's personality. For five and a half days Gandhi has fasted in the interests of his twin ideals, a united and independent India, and the greatness of the Hindu religion. Despite an Anglo-Saxon mistrust of dramatic heroism the ordinary observer is following Gandhi's struggle with admiration for the idealist willing to sacrifice his life for what he believes to be right...
...political parties, urging a sort of diluted British Fascism of his own invention. The Oxford audience listened politely when he said that the Laborites were "a party of spouting mouths and clutching hands with no brains." But if the Archbishop of Canterbury had shouted a string of four-letter Saxon expletives they could not have been more shocked than they were at what came next from beneath Novelist Wells's grizzled mustache-an attack on King George...
...these advantages fail to convince the gentlemen who have made Columbia famous as the Home of Optometry, no doubt they will be entranced by the scholarship of Mr. Chesley. Etymology is his forte, for he explains that "spiritonomy" is a new word, part Anglo-Saxon and part Greek. And Columbia psychologists may be interested...
...Anglo-Saxon Entente," Professor Langer, Harvard...