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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ainola estate near Helsinki. Finnish Runner Paavo Nurmi taped the windows of his Helsinki sporting goods shop, went ofi to enlist as a chauffeur. Finnish Author Frans Eemil Sillanpda, his seven offspring at his heels, left for Stockholm to receive his Nobel Prize for literature. Unable to stand drinks en route, Author Sillanpaa excused himself: "It's a little awkward at the moment but I'll soon have some money, for I'm on my way to Stockholm to receive the Nobel Prize." Pehr Evind Svinhuvud, 78, ex-President of Finland, also enlisted...
...this good work was promptly undone last week by developments at University of Wisconsin. Into the office of the dean of men irately marched Madison's Police Chief William H. McCormick. Chief McCormick threatened to arrest the members of Sigma Nu, Chi Psi and Alpha Delta Phi en masse. His complaint: Sigma Nus, Chi Psis and Alpha Delts had taken to whiling away evenings by shouting obscene names at one another. Worse, a fraternity man was caught in the act of painting on the sidewalk in front of the Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority house: "Poo on A E Phoo...
...en väldig borg." To conquer not only England but most of what is now the Baltic States was the bloody feat of Denmark in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries under her Hero-Kings, Cnut the Great and the Valdemars. In the 13th Century valorous Norwegians led by Haakon the Old seized Greenland, Iceland, the Orkneys, the Shetlands and the Hebrides...
...eyes, escorted onto a Palace balcony by the Three Kings and amid deafening cheers the four men linked arms, stood solemnly while the crowd sang the national anthems of their countries and ended with that grand old Lutheran fighting hymn "Vår Gud är oss en väldig borg" (A Mighty Fortress Is Our God). In the enthusiastic crush 17 people fainted...
...said Miss Duncan, she and a man named Douglas Miller were lunching together (Miss Duncan was traveling with her aunt) aboard the Norwegian freighter Ronda, standing up through the North Sea en route from Antwerp to Hoboken. Suddenly the ship "shuddered awfully." Glass tinkled, Miss Duncan remembered, and vases broke...