Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sweden, a country which loves cleanliness, was fed up with its cleaners. They took two weeks or more to clean clothes, and the prices were outrageous to boot. Last week the New York Times reported that some Swedes had found a solution. They send their clothes by airplane to be dry-cleaned in the U.S., get them back within a week...
...than $500 to $800 . . . and their university sports are the world's biggest amateur fraud." Idrottsbladet got in a lick: "It took Our Lord 800,000,000 years to create the world of today. How long a time will it take Mr. Brundage to learn to understand it?" (Sweden was mad because its track heroes-Gunder Hägg and Arne Andersson-had been barred from amateur ranks a year...
...Norway, Denmark, Sweden...
...Manhattan, ex-Prince Carl Johan of Sweden, Windsor's second cousin, who also married a commoner (and relinquished his rights of succession), had a distressing set-to with his landlady. He sued to break his lease on his duplex apartment ($666.67 a month) which, the ex-Prince declared, not only "presented a somber, ungainly and disordered aspect," but also had rats. He suggested that $300 a month was quite enough. "I'm not being libelous and I'm not being rude," the landlady explained, as she reported that she had decorated the place "in a manner...
...Sweden's King Gustaf, 88, home from ten weeks of embroidery (instead of tennis, by doctor's orders) on the French Riviera, was looking sharp as a needle...