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Word: iceland (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went on, "that your prohibition laws are evil, and yet they seem to stay right with you through all the smoke and pseudo-virulent flame of attack. We have something in common with you with our laws about liquor; Iceland and the United States are the only two countries in the world that have prohibition, and the majority of our people are opposed to it, just as yours are. Despite the apparent helplessness of America and the foolishness of self-imposition of thousands of useless and liberty-destroying laws, I do not at all feel that it is a decadent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Americans Too Much Disturbed Over Younger Generation", Asserts Nordal in Interview--Iceland Has Prohibition Laws | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

...Bernard turned out a misfit. He took his Lenina to the feelies and to color organ concerts, danced with her to "Bottle songs" ("Bottle of mine, it's you I've always wanted . . ."), but he objected to sharing her with others. For that he was banished to Iceland. "Mr. Savage" was b --n on an Indian reservation of a real m ----r, and he too fell in love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mary's Neckers | 2/8/1932 | See Source »

Professor Sigurthur Nordal of the University of Iceland, will start his second series of lectures on February...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Norton Lectures | 2/3/1932 | See Source »

...giving his third talk as the Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer for this year, Professor Sigarther Nordal will speak on "The Sagas of Iceland" tomorrow in the large lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum at 4 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Norton Lecture | 12/10/1931 | See Source »

Professor Nordal, who holds the chair of Iceland Literature in the University of Iceland, will touch on the development of the prose legends and chronicles, to which he has devoted years of special research. While studying for his Doctor's Degree in Copenhagon, he published numerous works on the Sagas of St. Olaf and other medieval Norse prose writings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Norton Lecture | 12/10/1931 | See Source »

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