Word: swedishly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annually. Because of the easygoing temper of the people, the "Bratt system" has occasioned little friction, has reduced the consumption of alcohol 50% in such cities as Stockholm, and appears to ration out alcohol in just sufficient quantities to make smuggling unprofitable. This "golden mean" of Swedish "regulation" contrasts sharply with Norwegian "prohibition" of all liquors of more than 45% alcoholic content. In Norway, though wines and beers are at everyone's disposal, the smuggling in of hard liquor by German speedboats* has become an industry...
Attended a concert by the American Union of Swedish Singers at Manhattan; told the singers: I heard you in Washington last Saturday...
There are crown princes and crown princes, and the Crown Prince of Sweden, now touring the country, has shown a temper that even Americans of a thoroughly unsentimental nature can admire. Speaking at the Swedish Lutheran Church is New York City, he admitted gratification that it had preserved the Swedish tongue in many rites, but remarked, "on the other hand you must see that it is your self-evident duty as American citizens to master fully the English Language and the ideals of this country, that you may become good citizens and fulfill obligations of American citizenship...
Welcome. The Swedish Minister at Washington, the U. S. Minister to Sweden and J. Butler Wright of the State Department took the visitors on a city ferryboat. Governor's Island fired 21 guns. The municipal fireboat sent eight streams of water high in the air. At the Battery a guard of Marines escorted the party to the City Hall. Mayor Walker made a speech. The Crown Prince made a speech?quite professionally?into the radio microphone?departed for Washington...
...Princess set out into New Jersey for commencement at Upsala (Lutheran) College, then to Princeton. Returning to Manhattan, they went directly to the Metropolitan Opera House through a mob of several thousand street-peepers; from the J. P. Morgan box heard a concert by the American Union of Swedish Singers (58 male choruses from 50 U. S. cities), which later was variously acclaimed by the critics...