Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian-made cousin: Mikki Maus. Some names of the original Mickey, elsewhere: Miki Kuchi (Japan), Miguel Ratoncito (Spain), Michel Souris (France), Musse Pigg (Sweden), Camondongo Mickey (Brazil), El Raton Mickey (Argentina), Mikel Mus (Greece...
Prince Carl of Sweden landed in Manhattan on business, was ready with a little arrival speech that rustled with seals and parchment. "I keenly desire," he told reporters, "to stimulate greater American interest in Swedish goods...
Died. H. Estelle Rornaine Manville, 73, socialite widow of Asbestos King H. Edward Manville; following a brain operation; in New Rochelle, N.Y. Widow Manville, enormously proud of daughter Estelle, who married the King of Sweden's nephew, Count Folke Bernadotte, was not at all proud of nephew Tommy Manville, who was having wife-trouble as usual last week (with...
...competition. It's merely trade." Members of the couturiers' syndicate promptly changed their attitude; Schiaparelli and Jacques Fath threw cocktail parties. A round of dining and lunching followed, highlighted by a Government-sponsored party at the exclusive Club de Lundi. Buyers from Cairo, Lebanon, Switzerland and Sweden, who had been trying to get just such clothes as California showed, bustled about trying to place orders...
Appalled by his parents' Scotch-Irish Presbyterianism, he soaked up the religious mysticism of Emanuel Sweden-borg.-Believing that God was within man, he was scornful. of the traditional figure of Jehovah: "Any mother who suckles her babe upon her own breast, any bitch in fact who litters her periodical brood of pups, presents to my imagination a vastly nearer and sweeter Divine charm. . . . Against this lurid power-half-pedagogue, half-policeman, but wholly imbecile in both aspects-I . . . raise my gleeful fist, I lift my scornful foot." This kind of "elegant Billingsgate," as his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson...