Word: swedes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sweet and low, then soaring. What but "Jenny Lind"?the little swede that Barnum made "The Swedish Nightingale." Ah, ah. . . co-lor-a-tur-AH?very nice. The audience stood up and cheered while young Composer Moore bowed from...
Half the people in Chicago were jammed on the sidewalk in front of the People's Gas Building. Upstairs, in the office of the baseball commission, Charles ("Swede") Risberg, banned shortstop, told how Detroit threw a series of games to the Chicago White Sox in 1917. He spoke for an hour and five minutes, repeating, in front of the 29 famed players he accused of giving and taking bribes, the charges he had already expressed to Judge Landis. The baseball commissioner listened with a foxlike expression. He had on a wing collar and he chewed a derelict cigar. Sometimes...
...Penethen, respected, kindly widow. She sat by her kitchen fire, her skirt drawn up to her knees, her toes resting on a woolworked cushion. She was to admit to her home that night, against her will and yet somehow with all her heart, a vast foreigner: a simple Swede, a blond HerculesApollo, whose strangely formal card contained the words: Hjalmar Johanson, Gymnastic Instructor. The storm passed in the night. But only with convulsive effort and in the space of a year did Polcastrians rid themselves of Harmer John, as they, first in affection, later in derision and finally in hate...
...permit system based upon the status of each purchaser-the head of a family to be sold not more than a gallon of "hard liquors" a month, single women not more than a gallon a year, restaurants an amount proportionate to their proven sales of food. To the Swede who dines in restaurants there may be brought unlimited "hard liquors" if the diner orders and pays for an additional meal with each round...
What would have sounded trite, perhaps ultra-conservative, even hypocritical upon the lips of the average Americanization worker, rings true as spoken by a Swede to members of his own race in this country. It stands out likewise as unique. In moments of extreme nationalism, nations have maintained spies in foreign lands to link emigrants to their abandoned fatherland. Seldom do they even now encourage complete expatriation. Ties of sentiment and race forbid. The lands of Europe have long regarded emigration as imperialistic energy gone to waste, and begrudged to the land to which their sons departed the fruits...