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Comment. "Sinclair Lewis," said Stockholm's Nya Dagtigt Allehanda "is a noisy savage." "Lewis," declared Tidningen, "is sincere." "Lewis is no charlatan," said Poet Eric Axel Karlfeldt, secretary of the Swedish Academy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: Sauk Center & Plate of Gold | 12/22/1930 | See Source »

...carried 30,000 troops and "never lost a soldier." He sank one submarine by gunfire, another by ramming its stern, for which exploits he was knighted. A famed Indian chief who crossed with him on the Olympic made him a chief also, conferred on him the title of Tah-nya-di-yes-"the man who crosses great waters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 29, 1924 | 12/29/1924 | See Source »

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