Word: amalienborg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the mutually respectful understanding of a company's top executive and a minor employe. In this role Christian X has been one of Denmark's most valued Kings, for his people rate him as sensible as he is imposing. His preference for living in the Amalienborg Palace, one of four identical rococo buildings which rub shoulders with shops, hotels and private houses, instead of in vast Christiansborg Palace with its golden crown looming into the sky and including the Houses of Parliament and Denmark's Supreme Court, they regard as a demonstration of good judgment rather...
...cheery salute. Back waved King Christian, and at that moment his horse, young and excitable, suddenly reared, fell down. Beneath the horse one of the King's legs was pinioned and anxious bystanders rushed to help. With a tight-lipped grin King Christian remounted, rode back to Amalienborg Castle as though nothing had happened. That evening, none the worse for his fall, he entertained at dinner...
...sight that might make any monarch quail last week faced Denmark's tall, saturnine King Christian X. The great, eight-sided courtyard of Amalienborg Palace was jam-packed with strapping, irate Danish farmers in the grip of a grievance. The King, as he peered from his palace, noted on some brawny arms the swastika band of the Danish Nazis, on others the hammer & sickle of Communism (see p. 18). The mob had gathered from the eastern Danish islands, where little farms are thickest, to demand that Premier Theodore Stauning lower farm taxes, raise farm prices, declare a farm mortgage...
...Association which appealed to city folk: "Go down to the street, find a farmer, and invite him to spend the night with you!" Response was so wholehearted that all 50,000 farmers had been comfortably bedded and adequately breakfasted by sagacious city folk before they set out to mob Amalienborg Palace...
Indulgent, the Danish judge released Clifton from custody. When the frokener raised a clamor, policemen shushed them. Next day Clifton moped while a Royal automobile flanked by a company of His Majesty's Guards carried the U. S. Minister to Castle Amalienborg. After presenting credentials to King Christian X, Mr. Booth was presented to Queen Alexandrine...