All 11 Uses of
Scandinavia
in
Main Street
- Axel Egge's General Store, frequented by Scandinavian farmers.†
Chpt 4 *
- Bully people, these Scandinavian farmers.†
Chpt 5
- And I do admire the Scandinavian farmers down there so: their big red barns and silos and milking-machines and everything.†
Chpt 7
- I do think the Scandinavians are the hardiest and best people——†
Chpt 7
- The Scandinavians are sturdy and honest——†
Chpt 7
- The place was crowded with Scandinavian farmwives, standing aloof in shawls and ancient fawn-colored leg o' mutton jackets, awaiting the return of their lords.†
Chpt 9
- So it chanced that she was plotting against the peace of the Thanatopsis at her third meeting (which covered Scandinavian, Russian, and Polish Literature, with remarks by Mrs. Leonard Warren on the sinful paganism of the Russian so-called church).†
Chpt 11
- Carol helped him weigh babies and examine their throats, and she wrote out the diets for mute German and Scandinavian mothers.†
Chpt 20
- She remembered the feeble exotic quality to be found in the first-generation Scandinavians; she recalled the Norwegian Fair at the Lutheran Church, to which Bea had taken her.†
Chpt 22
- But she saw these Scandinavian women zealously exchanging their spiced puddings and red jackets for fried pork chops and congealed white blouses, trading the ancient Christmas hymns of the fjords for "She's My Jazzland Cutie," being Americanized into uniformity, and in less than a generation losing in the grayness whatever pleasant new customs they might have added to the life of the town.†
Chpt 22
- Wasn't his nose a snub, like so many Scandinavians?†
Chpt 33
Definition:
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(Scandinavia) Norway, Sweden, Denmark and sometimes Finland & Iceland