Word: stockholmers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George Bernard Shaw: "Stockholm despatches announce I have just been awarded the 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature.* Said I, slyly: 'I suppose it is because I wrote nothing that year.' My secretary believes the prize is for my play, Saint Joan, written in 1923. It is generally assumed that the award is made for my work as dramatist, in which I claim to be the superior of Shakespeare. But I spend more time on the prefaces to my plays than on the plays themselves, and I prefer my reputation as philsopher to that as dramatist...
...steaks were set last week before three very lean and perhaps hungry royal uncles: the kings of Sweden, Denmark, Norway. Their royal niece, Princess Astrid of Sweden had baked to crown the feast, a birthday cake for her fiance, Crown Prince Leopold of the Belgians, who had come to Stockholm earlier in the week with his parents King Albert and Queen Elizabeth of the Belgians. The host and hostess of this royal birthday party intime, which preceded the wedding of Astrid and Leopold last week, were the bride's parents: Prince Carl, Duke of Vastergötland, brother...
...Nuptial Rejoicings. Crown Prince Leopold, who has several times visited Stockholm unrecognized, by traveling third class and entering the apartment of Prince Carl by the back way, strolled about the city last week with Princess Astrid on his arm, to the vast delight of cheering Swedes. On the day before their wedding the couple met at 7 a.m. to begin with a brisk horseback ride a day which closed with a state dinner at the Palace and a gala in their honor at the Royal Opera...
Officiating Socialist. At the dais ordinarily occupied by the Throne stood that arch-Socialist Carl Lindhagan, Mayor of Stockholm, famous because he introduces before the Swedish Parliament every year a bill to abolish the Monarchy. He it was whom astute King Gustaf had chosen to perform the civil marriage of Astrid and Leopold. Hereafter when Mayor Lindhagan rises to present his bill there may well ensue jeers. Last week he testily remarked before the ceremony: "Of course I have no objection to uniting in marriage any two young people who appear to love each other." As the royal pair stood...
...half of the $100,000,000 issue was snapped up almost as quickly in London, Paris, Tokyo, Berlin, Amsterdam, Stockholm and Budapest. The stabilized Belgian franc, now quoted in units of five francs known as belgas, promptly mounted to a fraction over sterling...