Word: copenhagen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hans Andersen. Hence Fabulist Andersen's friends warned him that the publication of the story might brand him as disloyal to the new reigning house. Ever easily frightened, he cautiously suppressed the manuscript, which was only recently unearthed by Herr Julius Clausen of the Royal Library at Copenhagen...
Last year the city of Copenhagen paid a graceful compliment to the Gothic intellect by holding a memorial exhibit of reliques, papers, letters, reminiscent of the life of Wolfgang Goethe. To reciprocate, the Prussian State Library recently opened a similar exhibit for a Scandinavian genius, Hans Christian Andersen. First editions of his books, illustrations for his earliest fairy tales, letters from Hugo, Heine, Balzac, Lamartine, De Vigny, the Grimm brothers and the Grand Duke of Weimar, ladies' favors, gentlemen's favors, and the souvenirs of princes, are shown there, and the German schoolchildren who went to gaze...
...went to Copenhagen. At the opera they took him for a lunatic. He tried to be a dancer, but his feet were too big and his legs were too thin. So there was nothing left for him to do but turn writer...
...East Cape, Siberia, free of the ice and bound for Nome, Alaska. Though equipped with radio, the Maude has not been heard from directly for months. Presumably she was been withholding gasoline from her power generators, for use in crashing the floes. Hearing of her return, Explorer Amundsen, in Copenhagen, conferring with German dirigible experts upon a proposed pole-flight in 1926, offered the Maude for sale to satisfy his creditors...
Belgrade 8 hr. Constantinople 4 hr. 30 min. Bucharest 2 hr. 30 min. Moscow 8 hr. 15 Min Leningrad 6 hr. 5 min. Copenhagen 4 hr. Paris...