Word: stockholmers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spinning to music shocked U. S. skaters; they would have none of it. So Haines went to Europe on an exhibition tour. He found London cool, Stockholm warm. When he reached Vienna, the city went wild. Haines taught the Viennese to waltz on ice. They formed the Vienna School of Skating, founded the International Style, now universally used by figure skaters. Haines never returned to the U. S., never lived to see his rhythmic technique accepted by his native land. He died in 1879, while traveling from St. Petersburg to Stockholm, was buried in the little Finnish village of Gamla...
...Diez's trial shed bright light on the sorry business of selling sanctuary in South America to European refugees. Reports from Lisbon tell of Latin-American passports selling for as high as $3,000, auctioned off by the unsalaried consuls of small nations. In Berlin, Warsaw, Kaunas or Stockholm the pattern is the same. Some consuls were reported busily selling citizenship over the counter, then adding the stipulation that the refugee never enter his adopted country. The Japanese liner Ginyo Maru, which docked in Panama three weeks ago, was filled with Jewish refugees who had paid from...
Certain papers stated that the ruinous slides had been caused by cloudbursts. But the Stockholm Dagens Nyheter suggested that the wet looseness of the mountain earth had made it easy to send it tumbling with small dynamite charges, that the slides had been the work of a network of Norwegian saboteurs bent on breaking military supply lines to coastal air bases used in the bombing of Britain. The suggestion gained credence from the fact that Nazi armored trucks were rushed to the landslide districts, many arrests were made, a state of siege declared. Nazi police and soldiers stopped and searched...
...Swedes like "Smith" to Englishmen) was too common, it took for a surname the father's nickname ("Mille"). In Paris he became a friend and assistant to the late Auguste Rodin. After World War I he got a job as professor of modeling at the Royal Academy of Stockholm. But the Swedish critics disliked the distortions and fearsome grimaces of his statues, never conceded him a top ranking among Swedish artists. It was not until 1926, when curious Londoners gathered together a large Milles exhibition at the Tate Gallery, that Carl Milles became known to the outside world...
Last week, as the Italians attacked across the mountains of Epirus (aiming in one place for loannina hard by Dodona), there was very similar double talk in the air. It came from "neutral sources." Just as the world heard (via Stockholm) that Finland was victorious to the day of its defeat, heard (via Berne) that France was doing not too badly against the Nazis, heard (from Stockholm again) that the British were throwing the Nazis out of Norway, these "neutral sources" (Belgrade was now the worst offender) gave out good cheer for Greeks. The "news" they told must have come...