Word: ansonia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...apartment in Manhattan's highceilinged, eminently respectable Hotel Ansonia, 20-odd massive, military-looking Danes sat one evening last fortnight around a barrel of Danish beer. The warriors were at ease. They toasted King Christian X, and many another, in glass after glass of clear, burning aqvavit.* After every glass of aqvavit, they downed a chaser of beer...
...marriage in 1925 Kleinchen has never missed one of his performances. She accompanies him on all his tours, entertains his guests, manages all his business affairs, passes upon his contracts, writes his letters, helps with his press interviews, welcomes his friends to the Melchior eight-room apartment at the Ansonia...
Though he lives in Germany and sings in the U. S., tenants of the Ansonia do not need to be reminded that Heldentenor Melchior is a Dane. Melchior himself never forgets it either. On his island castle in Germany he always flies the Danish flag. And on the door of his Manhattan apartment is a sign. It reads: "Lauritz Melchior, singer to the Royal Court of Denmark...