Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...citizens of Sweden do not think so. Their lives are passed in a land where "service" is not advertised but given. From a Swedish telephone operator is expected the sort of unstinted satisfaction which a Swedish housemaid gives by shining the family shoes every day, doing the household wash and energetically scrubbing such members of the family as may deign to take a bath. Last week the telephone companies in Stockholm and Gothenburg announced a new era of luxurious telephoning typically Swedish...
...wondered last week, if this so "unAmerican" super-service is given over U. S.-made telephones. It is not. Swedes long ago refused to tolerate the heavy, antiquated type of instrument which requires two hands to lift it from the table and manipulate it. The "Made in Sweden" telephone is a one-handed device, weighing only a few ounces, combining the transmitter and receiver in a single mounting. Therefore, and because of their excellent quality, Swedish telephones have been very widely adopted for the newer installations in Europe, Asia, Latin America...
...quaint instance of Swedish cunning was observed in London, last week, when several large coffins were unloaded from a ship from Sweden. The coffins weighed but little more than packing cases of the same size, contained Swedish matches, were sold after the matches had been unpacked...
Cries from the main tent told us to hurry for choice seats or even those splinters called bleachers. And soon we were watching cowgirls and cowboys and their cows doing such stunts as my merry Oscar had not seen before since he was in Sweden with the Marines during the battle of Jungfrau...
When Swedish-American liner Stockholm pushed gently into its berth, the hundreds of men and women on the pier stood at attention. Aboard, on the main deck, the Sangsallakapet De Svenske (national chorus of Sweden), otherwise known as the Singing Vikings, of whom there are 52 in all, sang out the Swedish national anthem...