Word: scandinavian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Briggs Cunningham's Lulu: the Scandinavian Gold Cup, outstanding international trophy for six-meter yachts; off Oyster...
...Lewisohn Stadium last week upon a towheaded young woman who, whirling to the strains of a sweating, shirtsleeved orchestra, sang and danced passionately around a plaster head on a property platter until her feet hurt and print dress was damp and dusty. She was Erica Darbo, the Scandinavian soprano whose U. S. debut set Cincinnati agog last February in Strauss' Salome, rehearsing for her first New York appearance. The night of the performance, in costume and against a background of stars and sultry violet, Miss Darbo gained full credit for the force and fury of her acting...
...enough to make news, for it opened the possibility of the U. S. finding some new diplomatic playmates in Europe. The British and French are deeply involved in the intricacies of European politics. A more useful diplomatic connection with Europe may be through the neutral Oslo Group of Scandinavian countries...
...even a part of kitchen curriculum. They were prepared by the butler in private homes and by the more experienced waiters in hotels and restaurants. The custom of serving tasty bits as preliminary to dinner started in Russia where they were called "Zakouski" and with the "Smorgasbord" of the Scandinavian countries, where the guests eat and drink them standing-and in a room apart from the dining room, later spreading to France, Italy and Spain. PETER BORR...
Oslo Group. Because the Scandinavian nations speak nearly the same language, share the same royal family and were most ardently bound to neutrality during the War, they formed instinctively a tight little group that talked and voted alike during the early years of the League of Nations. Instinctively Baltic Finland joined them and also the Low Countries, Belgium, The Netherlands, minuscule Luxembourg. Nothing very practical was done about this group until December 1930, when delegates of all except Finland met in Oslo, Norway to try nothing more elaborate than a mutual tariff agreement. Main trouble was that the best individual...