Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...done plenty. Jonas Lie is a National Academician, painter member of New York's City Art Commission, and a director of the Art Students' League. He was born in Norway in 1880, in his own words "by accident of a Norwegian father and an American mother of Scotch ancestry from Massachusetts." A thoroughly academic training gave him great technical dexterity with paint, no very revolutionary ideas to express on canvas. He is famed for pleasant, decorative landscapes and pictures of sailboats off rocky shores. He invariably wears the purple and gold rosette of the National Institute of Arts and Letters...
Career: Son of an intelligent Norwegian father, he was an early and precocious reader. From the State Normal School, he went to Northwestern University, worked his waythrough the dental school, opened a professional office at Glenwood, Minn, in 1904. After serving as the town's mayor, he was elected to the State House of Representatives for one term. Removing to Minneapolis he continued his dental practice until 1922 when he was nominated by the Farmer-Labor party, then on the rise, for the U. S. Senate, subsequently defeating Senator Frank Billings Kellogg, later Secretary of State...
Because his wife, the former Didi H. Muus, is Norwegian, Mr. Cohu built for her at Southampton a summer home like a Norwegian mountain house. A Norwegian architect designed it, Norwegian craftsmen were imported to make the wood carvings. Mrs. Cohu named the house Gissa Bu. Her husband, who has never been to Norway, says he does not know what Gissa Bu means...
...anything more satisfying than critical acclaim. His first novel The Victor won the critics, sold only a few hundred copies. Subsequent plays and novels got high praise, but sales stayed low. Now all Scandinavia is reading Two Living and One Dead. Flawless in outline, crystal-clear as a Norwegian icicle, it deals with psychological subtleties at high tension with almost miraculous precision, without any witchcraft other than an immaculate literary conscience and a knifelike style...
...ship, a lumbering motor tanker named Arminda. Last November the Arminda sailed from Charleston for home with a cargo and 39 Dominicans returning to their country after fleeing the hurricane of 1930. The tanker ran into dirty weather. It was forced to signal for help. Promptly the Norwegian tanker Norwold shifted her course, picked up the floundering Arminda and towed her back to Charleston...