Word: selma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sweden's Bjornsterne Bjornson" ever received the Nobel Prize for Literature as stated in footnote on p. 40, TIME, Nov. 19. Alfred Nobel's Sweden has to be satisfied with Literature Prize Winners Selma Lagerloöf (1909), Verner von Heidenstam (1916) and Erik Axel Karlfeldt...
MEMORIES OF MY CHILDHOOD-Selma Lagerlöf-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). For human character, as for meat, salt preservative. Selma Lagerlöf is an old lady but she is salty. Best-loved Swedish writer, she is no Pollyanna but a wideawake female citizen whose rose-colored spectacles sometimes conceal but rarely lessen the knowing twinkle in her eye. Far enough removed from her own childhood (she is 75) to be forgivably sentimental about it, she writes with her accustomed sub-humorous kindliness of the little girl she was. Readers who missed the first volume of her reminiscences (Marbacka...
Marbacka is still in good Lagerlöf hands. Old lady Selma Lagerlöf spends her summers there, in the modernized manor house (see cut), oversees the cultivation of its 140 acres, the welfare of its 53 tenants...
...Passed a bill awarding St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Selma, Ala. $5,680 for damages done by Union soldiers during the Civil...
Federal Judge John M. Woolsey put an end to the $2,250,000 suit for plagiarism brought by Authoress Gladys Adelina Selma Lewis ("Georges Lewys") against Playwright Eugene O'Neill, his pub lishers and the Theatre Guild. Miss Lewis had charged that in O'Neill's Strange In terlude the motif of "selective parent hood" was stolen from her privately printed book The Temple of Pallas-Athenae, which pictured a temple in Paris at which perfect young males are - in Judge Woolsey's words - "kept at stud as professional fathers." Playwright O'Neill...