Word: finnishness
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...Vienna School of Skating, founded the International Style, now universally used by figure skaters. Haines never returned to the U. S., never lived to see his rhythmic technique accepted by his native land. He died in 1879, while traveling from St. Petersburg to Stockholm, was buried in the little Finnish village of Gamla-Karleby. Thirty years later, Manhattan Socialite Irving Brokaw, after winning an international prize in Switzerland, brought the International Style of skating back to the U. S. It spread like wildfire after European stars, like the great Charlotte, staged spectacular exhibitions in Manhattan's Hippodrome...
...Helsinki, where he has been helping distribute American gifts among Finnish war orphans, bald old Composer Jean Sibelius received a big parcel of food and coffee from Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, mother of the President...
...sideline to his carpentering and cranberry farming, Finnish Fanner Andrew Paananen took to sanding cranberry bogs in Carver, Mass. For this crop-improving work he got two $15 checks from the Department of Agriculture. Last week, when he opened his third Government pay check, all Andrew Paananen could say was "Look." The check...
...choosing as architects dapper, apple-cheeked, Finnish-born Eliel Saarinen and his broad-shouldered, twinkling son Eero, the Tabernacle Church got a pair of modernists whom even conservative architects respect. Best known for his rose-granite railway station at Helsinki, Eliel Saarinen recently won (with Son Eero and Son-in-law Robert Swanson) the national competition for the $2,500,000 Smithsonian Gallery of Art, which, if built, will be Washington's first modern Government building. Now president of Cranbrook Academy of Art near Detroit, Architect Saarinen exerts a widening influence over U. S. building...
Born. To Hjalmar Procopé, handsome Finnish Minister to the U. S. and his British bride of last year, a son, their first; in Washington...