Word: swedishly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most of the gang members range in age from 9 to 16. Italian boys form their own gangs. Irish, German, Swedish boys run together indiscriminately. Syrians keep to themselves. Porto Ricans will not associate with Negroes, and Brazilians will not associate with Porto Ricans. Racial friction is an outgrowth of ancestral antipathies, since most of the young men's fathers, who are universally engaged in the stevedoring business, do not care to mingle with foreigners...
Manhattan knows Paul Claudel because the Swedish Ballet Company danced his Man and His Desire just off blatant Broadway, three years ago; and recently the Theatre Guild produced his Tidings Brought To Mary...
...doctors said that he was suffering from Landry's paralysis, which generally kills the victim in two to 14 days. Still there was faint hope for their Albert. In 1898, at Minneapolis, a Swedish house servant had lived for 41 days under artificial respiration. And at New Haven, a year ago, one Mrs. Mary Baker, with lungs, paralyzed for 75 hours, had recovered...
Died. Frau Hildegard Carson, 50, designated by the usually conservative New York Times "Germany's richest woman"; in Bayreuth, Germany; from apoplexy. Her $10,000,000 estate of shipbuilding yards and docks in East Prussia goes to her Swedish husband. (Frau Bertha Krupp von Bohlen is probably worth...
...back yard. . . .I have decided to loaf about the world for two years and shall probably be all over the place unless stopped and made to write another book. Sometimes I wish I was just a plain, ordinary newspaper man again.'" George Bernard Shaw: "To the Anglo-Swedish Literary Foundation, which I established with the $35,000 Nobel Prize for Liberature awarded me for 1925 (TIME, Nov. 22, Nov. 29) I last week gave the first assignment: To translate all the works of August Strindberg, satirical, gloomy, thrice-married, woman-hating Swedish essayist, fictionist and dramatist. Author Strindberg...