Word: swedes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the two boards they made cross. With tenpenny nails through his hands & feet, they crucified Ed Collins. His screams brought help in time to save his life. Police asked his pals' names. "Swede" and "Joe," replied Ed Collins. What else about them? asked the police "Skip it," said Collins...
...Marie chanced instead to ask her friend whether he expected their romance to be celebrated by a cinema like the one in which this ironic little conversation occurs, any sensible young Swede, no matter how well-mannered, would certainly have answered no. Hollywood's tumbrils began rumbling five years ago, when an MGM story reader reported that Stefan Zweig's Marie Antoinette was "thoroughly modern, thoroughly plausible and slightly censorable." The picture was listed on the late Irving Thalberg's last production schedule, with his wife in the title role. The French Revolution, MGM, Shearer & Power, Director...
...abandoning the old name of "review day" in favor of "Romance Day," bringing to the screen Stokowski in "100 Men and a Girl" and Garbo in "Anna Karenina." This idylic couple, last heard from on the Isle of Capri, got widely diverging reactions from the local public. The big Swede left Harvard hearts cold, but the stoical Stokowski received such an overwhelming Radcliffe vote that the Deanna Durbin musical came in by a landslide. On Friday Mr. Deeds and Theodora go their ways, with Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, Irene Dunne, and Melvyn Douglas making this one of the funniest bills...
...judgment after death, and they experience exhilaration in contact with one of the most versatile scientific minds the world ever knew. Last week, at some 80 public dinners throughout the U. S., Swedenborgians joined with non-Swedenborgian scientists, pedagogues and divines to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the great Swede's birth...
...wholesale exodus of varsity men took away from Coach Earl Blaik the result of his first three years as head coach of the Big Green and at the same time marked the exit of the most powerful Indian eleven since the days of Swede Oberlander...