Word: astride
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...note had been perused at Mexico City and had been declared no stiffer than usual by Foreign Secretary Saenz, the President had already received the benefit pf all that the newspapers could say on the subject of possible intervention. Astrid on their wedding...
Married. Leopold of Saxe-Co-burp und Gotha and of Flanders, Crown Prince of the Belgians, Duke of Brabant; to Astrid of Ponte Corvo, daughter of Prince Carl of Sweden, niece of the kings of Norway, Sweden and Denmark; in Stockholm (TIME, Nov. 15) and Brussels...
Three sizzling reindeer steaks were set last week before three very lean and perhaps hungry royal uncles: the kings of Sweden, Denmark, Norway. Their royal niece, Princess Astrid of Sweden had baked to crown the feast, a birthday cake for her fiance, Crown Prince Leopold of the Belgians, who had come to Stockholm earlier in the week with his parents King Albert and Queen Elizabeth of the Belgians. The host and hostess of this royal birthday party intime, which preceded the wedding of Astrid and Leopold last week, were the bride's parents: Prince Carl, Duke of Vasterg...
...Nuptial Rejoicings. Crown Prince Leopold, who has several times visited Stockholm unrecognized, by traveling third class and entering the apartment of Prince Carl by the back way, strolled about the city last week with Princess Astrid on his arm, to the vast delight of cheering Swedes. On the day before their wedding the couple met at 7 a.m. to begin with a brisk horseback ride a day which closed with a state dinner at the Palace and a gala in their honor at the Royal Opera...
...Socialist. At the dais ordinarily occupied by the Throne stood that arch-Socialist Carl Lindhagan, Mayor of Stockholm, famous because he introduces before the Swedish Parliament every year a bill to abolish the Monarchy. He it was whom astute King Gustaf had chosen to perform the civil marriage of Astrid and Leopold. Hereafter when Mayor Lindhagan rises to present his bill there may well ensue jeers. Last week he testily remarked before the ceremony: "Of course I have no objection to uniting in marriage any two young people who appear to love each other." As the royal pair stood before...