Word: saxonizes
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Many years ago (in 680), a man child was born in an old Saxon family in Devonshire, and the child was christened Wynfrith. He studied at Exeter and early be-:ame a monk famed for his schollarship, his preaching. And he rook the name of Boniface...
...least harmful of all emphatic monosyllables solely for comic purposes. Writers like Mr. George Moore who perpetually deplore how foreign words and phrases are emasculating the English language, should be pleased to witness this reestablishment of words the lineage of which is as purely Anglo Saxon as that of any in the language...
...Chinese boycott of British shipping had already become surprisingly effective. The impertinence of it was not to be endured. Leaders of the pith-helmeted colony took counsel, called a proper Anglo-Saxon mass meeting, indicted resolutions after the Eton and Oxford manner, monopolized the cables...
...with its words breathing hatred of our Anglo-Saxon brother, Britain, and its music borrowed from a foul, English drinking song, To Anacreon in Heaven...
Never has Congress, and never will Congress, legalize Francis Scott Key's ballad, which voices "bombs bursting in air," "blood," "the terror of flight and the gloom of the grave," "foul footsteps' pollution," and refers to our Anglo-Saxon brother, Britain, as "the foe's haughty host...