Word: copenhagen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, now NO, and resident in Copenhagen, Denmark (TIME, March...
Wilhelm II, onetime German Emperor, received in his chateau at Doom, Holland, a correspondent of the Dagens Nyheder, Copenhagen newspaper. The onetime Kaiser, now a grey-bearded old man, has seemingly lost none of his arrogance, none of his pomposity, none of his commanding dogmatism; for, complaining, he said to the Danish newspaperman: "I could show the road to peace, but the world prefers regarding me as a scapegoat to consulting me as an adviser...
From Manhattan, the Radio Corporation of America sent the picture by radiogram to London. At London a print was made and sent by air mail to Antwerp, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Berlin, Paris and Madrid; by express steamer to Alexandria (Egypt), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Sao Paulo (Brazil), and Montevideo (Uruguay...
More recently doctors were interested in wall paper under which cockroaches and other room vermin made their nests. Cockroaches for a long time were thought by so able a scientist as Dr. Johannes Fibiger, rector of the University of Copenhagen, to be a cause of cancer (TIME, Nov. 8). Also, Paris green, once popular for killing cockroaches, bed bugs and like triflers, is made of arsenic...
...Clemington Corson (distance swimmer, once Mille Gade of Denmark) talked about her profession in Copenhagen, Denmark, to a huge audience including royalty and Annette Kellerman, aging Australian "diving Venus." King Christian X of Denmark commanded Mrs. Corson's presence at his palace, listened to her description of swimming the English Channel, handed her a gold medal. Said she upon emerging from the audience chamber: "I cried from sheer...