Word: nordics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coronation ritual proceeded Sultana Helen made her responses with a soft Scottish burr. At last, with the Lesser (female) Crown of Johore firmly planted on her Nordic head, she rode with swart Sultan Sir Ibrahim triumphantly around Johore Bahru, received the abject homage of its groveling, grinning populace...
...these protesting young men, if we understand them, are not objecting to religion as such, however much they may be questioning some of its current manifestations. They do seem to objects however, to the assumption that God is Nordic, Protestant, capitalistic, and pro-Ally. And they do not believe that the universities have the right to use the millions they can so easily command for the uncritical propagation of accepted ideas and beliefs. The students seem to be doing honest and genuine thinking, and in their thought we see far more of hope both for the universities...
Heat Wave is another play about the tropics where white women are careless of their virtue, white men foolish with their drink and only the natives retain a stealthy dignity. Handsome Basil Rathbone (The Command to Love) is the dissolute Nordic who is pursued by Irene March (Betty Lawford) but who really loves Irene's married sister-in-law Philippa (Selena Royle). For all his tippling and reputed wenching the Nordic is a brave lonely man, fighting fever and the opposition of public opinion in the district. This general resentment culminates in Philippa's husband taking a shot...
...Frankly," said the Brazilian foreman of the jury, "I am unable to appreciate the so-called blonde Nordic type...
Atlantic Coast Fisheries, Inc., made Harden Franklin Taylor its president. Long a vice president, Mr. Taylor invented the Taylor Process for quick-freezing, concentrated production on "Nordic Fillet of Haddock," responsible for Atlantic's recent success (FORTUNE...