Word: gosta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual, its appearance brought a blizzard of complaints howling down upon Editor Gosta Blomberg and the offices of Sweden's tax collectors. Thousands of outraged taxpayers complained of being undercharged and hence deprived of a listing among the aristocracy of the higher brackets. Others, equally outraged, swore that they had never made that kind of money in their lives. One distressed soul had even quietly tried to bribe Editor Blomberg into leaving his name out of the register. If his wife learned his real income, pleaded the unhappy taxpayer, it would cost him at least a new mink coat...
Died. Selma Lagerlof, 81, novelist (Gosta Berling, The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, The General's Ring) and grand old lady of Swedish letters; of peritonitis; in Marbacka, Sweden. First woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, only woman among the 18 "immortals" of the Swedish Academy, she last January gave her gold Nobel medal (intrinsic value about $500) to the Swedish national collection for Finland...