Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ambassador and Mrs. Houghton gave a ball before the first Court. First to dance with bobbed-haired Matilda Houghton was Edward of Wales. Chichibu of Nippon, Gustaf of Sweden, followed. Colonel and Mrs. Edward M. House looked on. Present was almost everyone of note then in London except Their Britannic Majesties...
...clock this morning, Gustaf Adolf, Crown Prince of Sweden, and Crown Princess Louise will arrive, in Cambridge for a visit to the University and to the Longfellow House. They will be received at University Hall in the Faculty Room by President Lowell and a small company of the officials of the University...
Tomorrow brings to Cambridge the Crown Prince of Sweden, whose visit to this country has caused almost as great a publicity campaign as the inauguration of a new cigarette. He will see the Sargent murals, the glass flowers, and have the unusual pleasure of seeing Harvard adorned with a few of those ornaments known to Revere Beach--band stands and wooden fountains. Certain of the idle poor will follow him about to see whether Governor Smith was right in saying that he would make a good president, weren't he a prince. And one more will be listed...
Gustavus Adolphus, Crown Prince of Sweden, and the Princess, his wife, will arrive in Boston Saturday morning and at 11 o'clock will motor to Cambridge for a two hour visit at the University. On his arrival he will be greeted at a reception to be given for him by President Lowell in the Faculty Room of University Hall. Following this gathering the royal visitor will pay shorts visits to the Stadium and the Freshman Halls and then will proceed to the Longfellow house on Brattle street where another reception will be held for him by the daughter...
...bubbles sailed aloft from an aviation field near Antwerp and drifted off toward the Dutch frontier. Night fell before all the bubbles had come again to earth. Dawn found one of them still coasting northeast over the boggy islands and bays of Denmark, over the fat fields of southern Sweden. Not until the wind, with its sleet and snow-squalls, threatened to drive this bubble on out over the Baltic Sea beyond Solvesborg on Hano Bay, did it descend. Then Pilots Ward T. Van Orman and Walter W. Horgan stepped out of their basket under the U. S. balloon, Goodyear...