Word: saxonizes
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...many things, including a roving reporter, Mrs. Clare Sheridan. Her despatches to The World (about Rudyard Kipling, Ireland, the Rhineland, Constantinople, Mussolini) have just been published under the title West and East, and are prefaced with the remark: " I have lost my belief in the infallibility of the Anglo-Saxon race. I have ceased to believe in equality, freedom or justice...
They will find, however, that the United States is not as wholly Anglo-Saxon as Col. Harvey may have indicated. Many Americans cling to their British ancestry with increasing pride, but an element of growing numbers has nothing in common with the British but their language. The Germans, Italians, Jews and Slavic peoples who have been immigrating in steady streams, have no national cordiality for England; and these transplanted colonies have failed to accept the prevailing traditions and friendships,--which are essentially British. Anglo-American kinship, once close, has become more and more remote...
...this dilution of the British-descended population merely necessitates greater efforts toward mutual understanding. Association must, in the future, develop the sympathy which has hitherto resulted from the ties of blood. And whatever regrets one may feel at the decrease in the proportion of Anglo-Saxon Americans should be diverted to efforts, such as Mrs. Davison's, to perpetuate Anglo-American unity...
...current Atlantic Monthly contains an article by the brilliant Dean of St. Paul's, London, discussing the Catholic Church and the Anglo-Saxon mind. He makes it his purpose to examine whether or not Protestantism is a spent force. He points out that although the Anglo-Catholic wing of the Established Church in England is strong among the clergy, especially in Canterbury, yet the movement has but a weak hold on the laity. "But," he adds, "a schismatical Catholic Church is a contradiction in terms. The (Anglo-Catholic) movement will probably end by enriching Protestantism with such romantic...
...only place where Anglo-Saxon reticence breaks down completely is the playhouse. In general, the Englishman or American likes to do his crying alone. He will lock himself in his own room, equip himself with smelling salts or a bottle of gin and a sponge, and have a good quiet weep. In the same way, he dislikes rising to high pitches of public hilarity. A reserved smile, or at most a genteel snicker is all he will permit himself in the presence of his associates. But under the sheltering darkness of the playhouse, he will be trapped into any extreme...