Word: finnishness
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...creator would be unqualifiedly "glad" at this calm appropriation of her brainchild. It is true, however, that there have been and still are voracious readers of this drivel. Over half a million copies of Pollyanna were sold, it was translated into five languages, including Japanese, and a Finnish edition is now under way. A prodigious mushroom crop of "Glad dubs" sprang up in its wake, and innumerable families were afflicted with "glad" little girls who, when a bee stung them, were glad it wasn't two bees...
Fourth Day. Next morning three gigantic American shot-putters-Clarence Houser, Glenn Hartranft, Ralph G. Hills-strode determinedly out of the locker-room. Picking up their missiles they catapulted them afar, shook hands with each other, strode back to the locker-room. Down came the Finnish flag, up went America...
...Clarence Houser's discus hurtled and ten more points were chalked up for the U. S. Four U. S. quarter-milers broke the world's 1,600-metre relay mark and four U. S. sprinters the 400-metre relay mark-20 more points. Nurmi, Ritola and their Finnish friends were not pressed for the 3,000-metre relay...
...bugle-blast rang out at the Marathon Gate. Into the Stadium loped Stenroos, a little Finnish woodcarver, still perky after 26 miles over hill and dale. He was crowned King of the Games with a laurel wreath, after an Italian, an American, another Finn, a Briton, a Chilean crawled...
...Hearst paragrapher pointed out that the annual Finnish immigration quota (to the U. S.) is only...