Word: saxonizes
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...public schools, is the "yeah" of today. Beowulf or any other early Briton would have pronounced it in the same manner if not with the same irritating inflection. Also, said Supervisor Herzberg, the use of "them" for "those" is no modern practice. "Them" is an old Anglo-Saxon dative...
...easy means to master another tongue seem greatly exaggerated. What can be gained from foreign movies besides the language however, is a feeling for the atmosphere and the qualities of another nation. Films like "Le Million" seem to carry the air and smells of Paris into the Anglo-Saxon austerity of even Harvard's brick. While history is vividly reconstructed in a movie such as the English production of the Dreyfus Case in which literal reality was sacrificed to truthfulness of impression...
...muttering about "academic freedom," getting up petitions, holding meetings. Dr. Uhler's resignation was at once demanded. Few days later, in spite of sputtering members of the American Association of University Professors (of which Dr. Uhler is a member) and a committee of New Orleans writers headed by Lyle Saxon (Old Louisiana, Lafitte, The Pirate), he was suspended. Then met the University Executive Board, of which Governor Huey Pierce Long is a leading member. Forthwith it dismissed Dr. Uhler...
Denouncing work under labor platoon conditions as "State slavery," Saxon Labor leaders demanded last week either "work at honest pay or an increase in the Dole...
...panacea which, if used in moderation, the human race cannot well get on without. It is far more efficacious than wine or beer; and, what's more, there's no use talking about wine or beer as far as this country is concerned. The Anglo-Saxon race is not a wine-drinking race and never will be. Legalize wine and beer and you will have a nation of staggering dyspeptics, all afflicted with cirrhosis of the liver. Legalize whiskey, make it easy to obtain, and you will have a temperate nation and a civilized one. That may sound...