Word: swedes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swedes, to Danes, were models of drunkenness. "Full som Svensker" "Drunk as a Swede," is the Danish phrase...
...breezy giant entered Chicago politics in 1900 on a bet; in 1915 he was elected mayor by the largest plurality ever counted in any U.S. city up to that time. "Big Bill" was frequently accused of pro-Germanism during World War I. By 1919 he and Fred ("Terrible Swede") Lundin had built a political machine second to none; Thompson coasted to a second term on the slogan "Freedom for Ireland." His last term (1927-31) was his most colorful. Elected on a promise to "punch King George's snoot" if that worthy ever visited Chicago, he found the city...
...young (45), blue-eyed Swede named Gunnar Myrdal landed in the U.S. in 1938 to make a fresh, thorough and impartial study of American Negroes. After five years of research, assisted by a staff of some 75 Carnegie Corporation-financed helpers, Sweden's Myrdal found that his whole ambitious project hinged on one simple question: "What goes on in the minds of white Americans?" Last week he published his complex, 1,483-page answer, called it An American Dilemma: the Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (Harper; 2 vols...
Chief guest speakers at the meeting will be Richard C. Floyd '11, president of the Varsity Club, and "Swede" Nelson, who played right half back on the 1919 team which trounced Boston College 17 to 0 in the only formal meeting between the two colleges...
What has happened to Harvard since the Worcester game is also a moot point. Swede Anderson, Joe Lauterbach, George Hibbard, and Steve Mallett have departed, and, while the addition of Paul and Red Perkins to the squad list has bolstered the team immeasurably, it's hard to fill four holes in a regular team...