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Before the Norman invasion, the Mayor was known as the Portreeve (porta, Latin for gate; reeve, Saxon for chief magistrate of town; of, shirereeve, contracted to sheriff). So strong was the City at this time that the Great Conqueror placed special value on securing its voluntary sanction to his kingship...
...days of the Cession. The author discusses with the utmost frankness and fairness almost every phase of life with which the French Canadians have been concerned. The book, taken as a whole, is a great tribute, despite some severe censures, to the British Government and to the Anglo Saxon Canadians...
...late Woodrow Wilson, according to the Kaiser, desired to go down in history as "the greatest Englishman" of his time. According to His ex-Majesty, he " 'sacrificed American lives to the Moloch of Anglo-Saxon supremacy...
Germany regards herself as the home of opera. She rather resents any non-Teutonic effort. The very idea of an Anglo-Saxon operatic composition seems to her a little absurd? certainly farfetched. For this reason no American has hitherto ventured with impunity to present the musical dramas of his making within her borders...
...find out why families which had for generations sent their sons to Harvard, gradually ceased to be represented in the University. The impossibility of finding records of the maternal sides forced him to abandon the attempt, but he said that he had secured irrefutable proof that the Anglo Saxon stock in America is dying...