Word: saxonizes
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...arrival of the menarche is the more significant than any birthday, but in the Anglo-Saxon households it is ignored and carefully concealed from general awareness. For six months while I was waiting for my first menstruation I toted a paper bag with diapers and pins in my school satchel. When it finally came, I suffered agonies lest anyone should guess or SMELL it or anything...
Still, Anglo-Saxon palates were hearty rather than decadent. Lots of meat broths and stews were the order of the day. Salt was obligatory in cheese and butter as well as on meat, making home-brewed ale equally obligatory. All lips smacked through the age of Chaucer...
...racial cliche damaging to our minority image has lied its way into the American mind. In films, in plays, in novels, the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant is consistently portrayed as an elderly, square parent-type, a money-oriented materialist who cares more about his electromobile than his wife and children...
...possibility once again, De Gaulle's old fears have reappeared among France's numerous linguistic patriots. Recently, 32 leading intellectuals and members of the venerable French Academy carried their worries directly to Georges Pompidou; in a bristling letter warning of the dangers of "subordination to the Anglo-Saxon world," the group demanded that the President take steps to see that French would remain "the working language of an enlarged Europe." Pompidou's reply included a solemn pledge "to preserve the legitimate place" of the French language in Europe...
...maud lin is the old vernacular form of (Mary) Magdalene, usually pictured weeping: Jules Leotard was a 19th century trapeze artist; mausoleum derives from the tomb of "the wily satrap" Mausolus, in Turkey; and tawdry comes from the cheap souvenirs sold at the shrine of a 7th century Anglo-Saxon princess who was called St. Audrey...