Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whose finger tips now and again tap an archbishop's cross dangling from a black cord about his shoulders. When it was his turn to speak, not a delegate missed a syllable of his words. Everybody knew and wanted to hear the Very Rev. Nathan Soderblom, Archbishop of Sweden...
...Wittenberg, such a seat would be historically most fitting. But in Scandinavia more than in Germany has Lutheranism flowered. The Archbishop could not help but think and hope thai Upsala, his home and the seat of Sweden's archbishopric, might some day be chosen as capital of Lutheranism. There, where once stood a glittering heathen temple, now stands as fine a Lutheran Cathedral as there is in the world, just west of where students in white velvet caps bordered in black stroll through the halls of the Oxford, the Heidelberg, the Sorbonne of Scandinavia, Upsala University...
...Dawes in England and the proposed visit of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald to the U. S. (see 11), the British press was most concerned last week with the annually recurring rumor of Edward of Wales's engagement. On this occasion the reigning favorite was Princess Ingrid of Sweden, 19, daughter of Sweden's Crown Prince, Gustaf Adolf. With nothing more concrete to go on than the fact that Princess Ingrid was visiting England for a month, that Edward of Wales's 35th birthday was imminent, that he once said that he would marry when...
...initiator was the Swedish seaplane Sverige, a Junkers like the Bremen of past fame. The Sverige's crew were Captain Albin Ahrenberg, Lieut. Axel Flodin and Mechanic Robert Ljunglund. Their course was to include stops at Stockholm (Sweden), Reykjavik (Iceland), Ivigtut (Greenland), Anticosti Island (Quebec), New York. Last week the Swedes got to Reykjavik, where a broken oil line forced their premature landing and delayed, at least, their completing the trip...
Once they have left Copenhagen they intend to cover in part Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and venture into Germany. Engagements have been made to do a large number of various kinds of jobs including theatre contracts, convention work, and dance music all along...