Word: oslo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...person of Andrew J. Volstead, a little man of Scandinavian descent who was born in Minnesota in 1861. His father was a Norwegian immigrant who built the log cabin on the farm where Andrew was born. His mother was the daughter of a market gardener, who lived just outside Oslo, then Christiania. One way and another young Andrew completed his education at St. Olaf's College and prepared for the bar. After a time he settled down to practice in Granite Falls, Minn. The year he arrived they made him attorney of Yellow Medicine County. He had Germans, Scandinavians, Canadians...
...fundamental democracy of Scandinavians is traditional, ingrained. King Haakon VII and Queen Maud of Norway habitually walk about the streets of Oslo (the capital) completely unattended, sometimes even escape being recognized by their subjects for hours. King Haakon's elder brother, King Christian X of Denmark, adopts only a slightly greater reserve toward his subjects when he and Queen Alexandria drive about Copenhagen. At Stockholm, Queen Victoria of Sweden often amiably looks on while King Gustaf V plays tennis with Swedish army officers, or with almost anyone to whom he happens to have taken a fancy. Therefore, Scandinavian newspapers noted...
...years ago he converted his impressions of Africa into a play called Kinangozi. And when it was produced by a distinguished cast of Swedish actors, who greasepainted themselves into the likeness of Negroes, the sensation created in Stockholm was so great that the play later passed triumphantly to Oslo, Norwegian capital, and was acclaimed there...
Norwegian. Roald Amundsen arrived from Oslo on his way to Italy, where he will negotiate for an Italian dirigible to take him to the pole next spring. "Pemmican, nuts, rolled oats, milk powder and chocolate will be our chief food supplies," he told Berliners...
...Oslo (formerly Christiania), Norwegian capital, Premier Johan Ludwig Mowinckel declared, during a day of national rejoicing, that "the incorporation of Svalbard makes Aug. 14 a red-letter day in our history. What happens today is an extension of Norwegian territory, and all Norwegians must rejoice that such an important territory in the Arctic Ocean becomes a part of Norway...