Word: swedishly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...result, the stories are good stories. The circus people love and hate, give and steal, swear and sing with inflections nearly as much their own as Mr. Tully's. If the real Moss-Haired girl, half Swedish, quarter Indian and quarter Irish, did not actually wash her hair in stale beer and herbs, or if she was not the freak of virtue that Mr. Tully has made her, there was surely enough virtue and stale beer about her to make exaggeration more permissible than understatement. If the blood and thunder seem as pat as they are plentiful in "Hey Rube...
...users in the aggregate, thousands of hours annually. We Americans value highly our "Time". In your remarks about hand telephones, do you infer backwardness in telephone development here? You forget that your Cleveland operator can get you London in a jiffy. You can not talk that far from a Swedish telephone. Are we backward with Telephoto, Television and all? Since telephone development in America is indisputably far ahead, is it not safe to presume that good and sufficient scientific reasons exist for our present types of telephones? Stationary and desk telephones are especially advantageous for long distance talking. Efficient long...
Cried Professor Gustav Cassel, Swedish economist, with as much emotion: "What is wanted is a general understanding of what is fair in the way of international protection. Say, for instance, we allow 20% or 25% ad valorem tariffs for the protection of living and wage standards. Surely all will agree that tariffs of 50% and 100% are not only unfair to world interests, but are uneconomic. If it costs more than 25% more to manufacture an article at home than abroad, give up making the article and let others make...
...Stockholm show was grand. Flags flew from poles on the Norrbro, the bridge which leads to the Swedish Houses of Parliament. One of the cleanest and most sanitary cities of the world was greeting its foreign visitors.* In the Concert Hall where the convention proceedings opened, the great organ played for 20 minutes. Then Axel F. Wallenberg, onetime Minister to the U. S. from Sweden, spoke (in English): "I have something to say to the representatives of the United States. . . . Allow me to say a few words as a Swede. In the name of my countrymen I thank...
...delegates were initiated without ceremony, at their hotels, into one of the most famed and entirely innocent of Swedish customs. Upon ringing for a bath, they were led down the corridor by a woman exactly resembling in age, attractiveness and dress the ordinary U. S. "scrub-woman." Unsuspecting, many U. S. delegates entered the bathroom, closed the door, disrobed and got into the tub. The Swedish bathwoman, having retired during this interval, suddenly re-entered without warning, soaped and scrubbed the delegate in question, then applied a towel as large as a sheet, patting vigorously until...