Word: swedishly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shrewd Ivar Kreuger has known how to dicker with sensitive governments, greedy governments, when the Swedish Match Trust wanted another monopoly (TIME, Oct. 1). A fat check here, a guarantee there, and competition has pleasantly evaporated. Thus it was that, last week, the match king of Sweden could look with satisfaction at every major match-consuming country of the world, except...
Married. Laurence Gouverneur Hoes, of Washington, great-great-grandson of James Monroe, fifth President of the U. S.; and Ingrid Westesson of Washington, daughter of a Swedish mining engineer; in Washington...
...gale blew the North Sea against Europe with such force that tides rose three feet higher than usual and ten small steamers swamped and sank with a loss of life estimated at 46. The Swedish freighter Scandsuvia was towed by tugs into Boulogne, France, with her cargo shifted, leaning over almost as far as did the Vestris...
...King Alexander's sister-in-law, Princess Ileana of Rumania, royal aunt of Rumanian Boy King Mihai, was in Stockholm last week, incognito, and was presented by the Royal Swedish Yacht Club with a 22-meter (66 foot) racing yacht...
...Legend of Gosta Berling, made in Sweden several years ago, brought the disturbing face of Greta Garbo to the notice of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Co. Lars Hanson (here Gosta Berling, an unfrocked Swedish preacher in love with a Count's wife in a Nobel Prize story by Selma Lagerlöf) came to Hollywood with her but quarreled with directors, protested against the stupidity of the roles they gave him, went back to Stockholm where he is now a leading "legit" actor. Miss Garbo, too, after immediate success, showed temperament but was soothed. In this picture, awkwardly constructed...