Word: swedishly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been sleek, blond Jack Honoré, the tall and loquacious Swedish barber just down Nassau Street, the check would have been cashed. Great Princeton character though Joe is, Barber Jack is a greater. By some occult means, he possesses himself of names, schools, home towns, parental fames-some say, of the tax returns, creeds and girlfriends' names-of every member of every entering class. Barber Jack would have known instantly that the freshman spoke the truth, that he was indeed John Davison Rockefeller III. He would have known that Freshman Rockefeller had entered Princeton University after preparing at Loomis...
...Council also recommended that: 1) Neutral (Swedish) officers shall supervise the Greco-Bulgar frontier in future. 2) Persons of Greek origin living in Bulgaria shall be transferred to Greece...
...which he excelled. It was the tragedy of this neurotic genius's life that even the women he loved would not have him. He was the original "ugly duckling," and he never evolved into anything better than an ugly drake. After following Jenny Lind, famed "Swedish Night-ingale," over half the world, he died in discontented bachelorhood...
Certain banks in Eastern U. S. cities have already reached and passed their centennials. Such age as a single century, however, pales into insignificance beside that of the oldest corporation in the world -the Stora Kopparbergs Bergslags A. B. This Swedish business stock company, organized in 1225, is this year celebrating its 700th anniversary...
...SWEDISH FAIRY TALES (translated) -Anna Wahlenberg- Penn Publishing Co. ($3.50). Charming fairy tales, well known abroad, retold in English and handsomely illustrated...