Word: stockholm
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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...
Significance. Interest promptly centered upon whether the new regime would attempt to enact strong arm prohibition in place of the highly successful "Stockholm system" of liquor control inaugurated in 1916 by Dr. Ivan Bratt, which was extended throughout Sweden in 1919 as the "Bratt system...
...surprising that such as Sweden, which has played the role of interested spectator in Europe's sword-rattlings, should be the most thoroughly pervaded with the new nation. One remembers that the dove has always found it easiest to alight in Geneva the Hague, or Stockholm than in Paris, London, or Berlin...
...universities, including Dartmouth. Princeton, Yale, Cornell Smith, Vassar, and Wellesley, who have been invited by the European Student Unions to send delegates to be their official guests for the summer. The delegates from Harvard will visit, among other places, Berlin, Hamburg, Koenigsberg, and Bremen in Germany Gutenburg and Stockholm in Sweden, the Norwegian Fiords, Helsingfors in Finland Reval, Navra and Dorpat in Esthonia. Riga in Latvia. Kouno in Lithuaria Warsaw in Poland, Prague in Czechoslavakia, Geneva, and Paris...
...less accomplished. His archeological work has been on the site of ancient Asine (Bay of Messenia, Greece). His music is in his own vocal cords. His athletic interests and abilities were demonstrated by his work on the Swedish Olympic Committee, and last winter when he plunged into a Stockholm canal and rescued a drowning U. S. jack-tar (TIME, Feb. 15). His religious militancy had scope last year in organizing and conducting the World Church Conference at Stockholm (TIME...