Word: oslo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hears little about the woman who, from the beginning of the century to the time of the War, was one of the most vital, colorful figures appearing anywhere in public. Fremstad was the daughter of a Swedish masseuse and a Norwegian doctor who gave up a profitable practice in Oslo to go to the U. S. as a Methodist missionary. Settling in St. Peter, some 75 miles from Minneapolis, the self-appointed evangelist toured the Minnesota countryside, holding burning revival meetings. Young Olive went with him. played a portable organ when she was so small that she wore blocks strapped...
...Ohio, Indiana. Michigan and the Southwest, promised Colgate-Rochester Theological Seminary that in mid-April Dr. Kagawa would deliver its annual Rauschenbusch Lectures. After that the East and Canada were to have him until June, when he planned to sail for Europe and the World Sunday School Convention at Oslo...
...Flagstad sang, the house was crowded to the doors and Tristan und Isolde became the season's bestseller. Question on every side was where such a singer had been keeping herself. Answer was that for 20 years she had had an uneventful career in Norway, singing at the Oslo Opera house where her talent was taken for granted...
Mouthpiece of Japan's claims is the great Japanese Liberal, Count Michimasa Soyejima, insurance man and onetime Imperial Chamberlain, who claims that Benito Mussolini told him last February that Italy would withdraw in Japan's favor. A month later, at the Oslo, Norway meeting of the International Olympic Committee, the Italian delegates denied this, reasserted Italy's claim. Last week, with a war and the possibility of a League of Nations boycott on his hands, Benito Mussolini heard with dismay that nonLeague Member Japan might cooperate in a League boycott. Japanese goods looked far better last week...
...disappearance from the Wyoming in Oslo, Norway of Midshipman Kenneth Barr was discovered when a Norwegian girl came aboard tor a tea dance and said he was expecting her. Soon found was a Norwegian chauffeur who said that Midshipman Barr had dismissed him near Lake Gjersjoeen, ten miles from Oslo, remarking, "I am going to picnic in the woods." All Norwegian radio stations then inquired for Midshipman Barr and helpful Norwegians responded by deluging the U. S. Consulate at Oslo with telegrams, notes and post cards conjecturing where he might be. Ultimately Picnicker Barr was arrested by Swedish frontier guards...