Word: swedes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voting, that they have not been bribed or corrupted." Mr. Bruhn, pointing out that he himself, a Cabinet Minister, would be obliged to take this "insulting oath" should the measure become law attacked it with such vigor that the clause was dropped. "Countless naturalized citizens," cried the triumphant ex-Swede, "have just as high and just as intelligent an appreciation of British citizenship as has Joshua Hinchliffe...
...Swooping from Stockholm to Paris came a whole planeload of Kreuger relations. The Match King, who was only 52, is survived by his father, mother, sisters, brothers. His secretive methods make the estate a question mark. "I don't know how much money I have," this long-nosed Swede often said, "and I don't care! What difference does money make?" Since he was said to control the billion-dollar Kreuger & Toll pyramid with slightly over $250,000 key securities, Titan Kreuger's contempt for personal pelf was natural. His pocketbook was always quite lean, but other...
...story, the day she arrived from Europe she was informed at the opera house that her brother had called. Soprano Ljungberg, one of eight children, knew of no brother in the U. S. so she dismissed the subject. A few days later she received a call from a tall Swede, vaguely familiar. He was a brother who had disappeared 26 years ago from their home in the north of Sweden. Soprano Ljungberg well remembers the day. She had just made her first loaves of bread, set them proudly on the windowsill to cool. Brother Ljungberg took the bread when...
...Brendel play "Mr. Lemon of Orange". There was every reason why we should have been. If Edward Cantor, Esquire, designs the dialogue things are fated to happen to one's abdominal district, whence the human laugh is said to find its being. And when a Swede speaks English, even though it is really an American making an entirely successful attempt to speak Anglo-Swedish, one rejoices unrestrained...
Mademoiselle Dorsay, who was obviously put into the cast to delight the masculine element in the audience, and to bring love life to the Swede, succeeded in doing both quite thoroughly. For the rest, the producer hired a lot of gentlemen with broken noses and created another gang-land picture. Mr. Lemon was a very simple Swede. Mr. McGee was a very complicated and very hard thug, whose cigars were of the definite variety. Both were Mr. Brendel. Both became involved with Miss Dorsay, calling her "Mees Yulee", or "that skoit" antiphonally. Both finally came to blows, and Mr. Brendel...