Word: saxons
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Argentina, as in some other Latin American countries, there are no trials in the Anglo-Saxon sense of the term. The judge sends his secretaries to take testimony from the defense and prosecution, makes his decision-in writing- after studying the written depositions...
...Norman earl, and a prattling slave girl-played by plump-cheeked young (20) French Starlet Cecile Aubry as if she were a fugitive from Little Women. Power's odyssey through Asia with a stuffy fellow exile (British Actor Jack Hawkins) is sandwiched between long, talky sequences picturing Norman-Saxon strife in England. And from time to time the film wanders off on little verbal jags to point up its sentimental moral: that it's a jolly fine thing to be an Englishman...
...foreign affairs to draw his country closer to the U.S., integrating Canadian and U.S. defense systems and their wartime economies. Through all the changes in Canada's foreign relations and in the strain of World War II, he contrived to keep the divergent French-speaking and Anglo-Saxon parts of Canada together behind him. Of all his achievements, King rated this preservation of the country's unity as the greatest...
...French Communists have recently been playing up Joan of Arc as a nationalist symbol of resistance to Anglo-Saxon (U.S.) influence in France. On Joan of Arc Day last May, Communist factory girls and housewives laid a wreath at the foot of Joan's statue in Paris...
...Jefferson, but 25,000 or more that were written to him by others. To be included: practically every recoverable scrap Jefferson ever wrote, from his state papers and his travel notes down to his jottings and essays on the scores of subjects which interested him, from the Anglo-Saxon language to recipes for macaroni and ice cream. Already, Editor Boyd has over 50,000 items on tap from more than 425 sources, and more are trickling in all the time...