Word: stockholms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Giants." Even more nervous two days later, Prizeman Lewis paced up & down a hallway in the Stockholm Stock Exchange, jerked out his watch repeatedly, fussed with his tie. But when the moment came for him to face the Stock Exchange hall, packed with the elite of Sweden, Sinclair Lewis of Sauk Center, Minn, conquered himself, spoke straight out and clearly the great speech of his life...
Comment. "Sinclair Lewis," said Stockholm's Nya Dagtigt Allehanda "is a noisy savage." "Lewis," declared Tidningen, "is sincere." "Lewis is no charlatan," said Poet Eric Axel Karlfeldt, secretary of the Swedish Academy...
...Princeton, N. J., Dr. van Dyke observed: "Who would be so unkind as to interrupt the bubbling joy of the author of Elmer Gantry in receiving the Nobel Prize?" Prizeman Lewis had hoped that Dr. van Dyke would not "demand the landing of U. S. Marines at Stockholm to protect American literary rights." Princeton's patriarch rejoined: "Why send the marines to Stockholm to interfere with the Babbitt? Just tell it to them...
...Sweden let Norway go so easily? It was there that Edward VII helped the Norns. Fridtjof Nansen could not have brought the pressure upon Stockholm which London brought. The new King of Norway as one of his first, most gracious acts appointed Explorer Nansen First Minister of the Kingdom of Norway to the Court of St. James...
...Awarding of the Nobel Prizes; at Stockholm, Sweden. Annual occasion: anniversary of the death in 1896 of Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Swedish founder of the $9,000,000 fund for international awards. 1930 recipients: Dr. Hans Fischer, in Chemistry; Sinclair (Babbitt) Lewis, in Literature; Dr. Karl Landsteiner, in Medicine ; Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, in Physics...