Word: scandinavia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tradition--men who have been dead twenty years are equally neglected. It is actually impossible for an amateur to study in any of these great galleries, a single painting by Cazanne, Van Gogh, Seurat, Gauguin, masters who are honored the world over--in London, Paris, Berlin, in Italy, Russia, Scandinavia, in the Low Countries, in Chicago and New York and Cleveland--but not in Boston. One must actually travel to Worcester to see paintings by Gauguin and Redon. In Boston, the development of 19th Century painting is half-heartedly illustrated through the Impressionist period. But after that we find only...
...visitor came last week to the U. S. He was Widgery Thomas, 87, onetime U. S. Minister to Sweden, who has spent most of his life on the southern tip of Scandinavia's peninsula and hopes to die there. He said: "What President Coolidge should do in order to assure that we get the right type of citizens is to wink both eyes at the number of Swedes that come to the United States and forget the restricted immigration quotas...
...chain mail.) 3) Disappearance of the Mound-builder civilization from the Great Lakes and Mississippi Basin in the 12th Century. (The indomitable Norse first began coming to America in the 11th Century.) 4) Presence in the Mound-builder country of earthworks identical with mounds of known Norse origin in Scandinavia and Scotland. (Mr. Brewer did not suggest that the Moundbuilders had not followed their burial customs for centuries before the Norse came; he simply suggested that Norsemen in America might have followed their own burial customs also...
That he is an excellent gentleman and worthy to meet the manager of the Giants as well as to ski in Scandinavia is beyond doubt. His democracy--something now supposed the special prerogative of princes--has made him beloved by his nation and feted by this. And in this feting there lurks a whimsical truth concerning the genus Americans, namely, that being good republicans they do like princes...
...Scandinavia, To a rhythm deliriously syncopated, Norwegians, Swedes and Danes have learned to shout, "Come as you are!" Introduced at Stockholm by a hatted and coated comedian who invites a bevy of chemise-clad girls to "Come as you are!" it kindled the Norse fancy, has become a quite unsuggestive equivalent for "Hail! Hail! The gang's all here...