Word: aude
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Visiting in Manhattan last week was a kindly, frosty-chinned churchman of 79, an Icelander and a Jesuit, whose Norse ancestors included such worthies as Queen Aud, widow of Olaf the White, King of Dublin, Thórd Gellir the Godar, who re-formed Iceland's Althing (Parliament) in 965, Loftur Guttormsson the Rich. Hrólfur Bjarnason the Strong and Svenn Thórarinsson who was a procurator and royal farm manager in 1857. When a son was born to Svenn Thórarinsson, he named the babe Jon Svensson. But Jon's mother nicknamed her child...
...Founder Frank Woolworth, Cousin Fred Woolworth aud Mr. Miller went to England, organized F. W. Woolworth & Co., Ltd. Mr. Miller stayed in England until 1920, opened...