Word: swedishly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Swedish locomotive, trim and bright, puffed forth from the Turkish Capital at Angora last week, and drew a salon car in which rode the great Ismet Pasha swiftly along 240 miles of new roadbed, linking Angora with the hinterland of Asiatic Turkey...
...When Swedish-American liner Stockholm pushed gently into its berth, the hundreds of men and women on the pier stood at attention. Aboard, on the main deck, the Sangsallakapet De Svenske (national chorus of Sweden), otherwise known as the Singing Vikings, of whom there are 52 in all, sang out the Swedish national anthem...
...Parents. His father, the late Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh of Minnesota, was born in Stockholm, the son of a member of the Swedish Parliament. Congressman Lindbergh was progressively a Republican, a "Bull Moose," a Farmer-Laborite. In Washington he was known as "the early bird of Congress...
...which is made up of interesting bits strung together on long thin threads of personal narrative, are the chapters devoted to Jenny Lind and General Tom Thumb. The reviewer wonders how many readers shared his own ignorance of the fact that Barnum brought Jenny Lind to this country. The Swedish Nightingale was given to the American public as a proof that the sponsor of Joice Heth, the Fejee Mermaid, and the Model of Niagara could also produce some legitimate and more high-hat entertainment. Except for a few financial statements, the story of Jenny Lind is well worth reading...
Just what time Wide's race will come on the program has not been decided as yet, though the Swedish speedster feels that there will be less wind to hinder him if his race is run as late as possible in the afternoon...