Word: leif
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Associated Artists of America), backed by Broker Harold Orlob. Odessco's picture: Home Town, with Wallace Ford and Stuart Erwin, directed by William K. Howard (Transatlantic). Triple A's picture: "...one-third of a nation," first WPA play to be adapted for cinema, with Sylvia Sidney and Leif Erikson, directed by Dudley Murphy (Emperor Jones...
...week emerged a snug, grey-hulled motorship with red, white and blue striping on her two buff funnels, gay bunting flapping from her halyards. She was the 18,673-ton Oslofjord, new $3,000,000 flagship of the Norwegian America Line, on her maiden voyage to the land Norse Leif Ericson previewed some 938 years earlier. Leif the Lucky's 75-foot ship was a Viking man-o'-war with a single candy-striped sail and places for 35 men. The 588-foot Oslofjord is a businesslike luxury liner with four 4,400-h.p. hydraulic-geared Diesels, accommodations...
...burdened for a reception tableau with a shirt of mail and the weight of 938 years of Norse legend. At quarantine, Viking Knutsen received a visitor. She was Rosebud Yellow Robe, sprightly, college-bred great grandniece of Sitting Bull. Last week Rosebud mislaid her peace pipe but gave sheepish Leif a beaded tobacco pouch and the welcoming ceremony was over...
...them appeared also on brooches, bracelets, rings, spearheads of the 8th to 11th Centuries A.D. In a glass case all by itself was a Viking drinking horn of heroic capacity, as long as a man's arm, carved from a single piece of wood in the time of Leif Ericsson...
Announcement that the services of Leif Marsh and Odd Overgaad as jumping coaches for this year's ski squad had been secured promises a more balanced squad. Crimson strength in slalom and downhill events last year failed to compensate for weakness in the other events...