Word: copenhagen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scandinavian monarch is greeted by his subjects with no servility, no boot-licking but with the affectionate bonhomie that a Protestant layman might show to an amiable Bishop of his sect. Last week Denmark's giant-tall King Christian X, on one of his daily horseback jaunts through Copenhagen's busiest streets, was not surprised when a passing truck driver waved him a 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...
CRUISE OF THE CONRAD-Alan Villiers -Scribner ($3-75) Three years ago in Copenhagen as he stood watching the 52-year-old Danish training-ship Georg Stage, "last surviving frigate in the world," Sailor-Author Villiers had to pinch himself to prove he was not dreaming when a bystander said it was for sale. In every port from Boston to the South Seas he had hunted for a sailing ship only half as perfect. He bought her on the spot, renamed her the Joseph Conrad, prepared to sail her around the world, to "keep a form of art alive upon...
Last week it appeared in the British journal Nature that H. J. Bhabha of Copenhagen's Institute of Theoretical Physics, using the results of Italian cosmic raymen, had spotted what might be negative protons in primary rays from far beyond the Milky Way. When the recorders were tilted 30° westward from the vertical, the number of incoming rays was appreciably diminished. This indicated the presence of negative particles, slanted in the other direction by Earth's magnetic field. These bullets were so powerful that 16 cm. of lead slowed them hardly more than 4 cm. It followed...
Three years ago Archbishop Aglipay and Bishop de los Reyes again visited the U. S. on their way to the International Congress of Religious Liberals held at Copenhagen. They were received as honored guests in America, England, Czechoslovakia, where they are in touch with the Czech National Church, and in other parts of the continent. In Denmark the Archbishop was personally welcomed by the King. This vigorous, indomitable, and patient servant of all good things in the Philippine Islands, and the beloved Archbishop of a large group of devoted people, surely is not only worthy of the affection in which...
...could. When Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier was first put on in London she enchanted Covent Garden with her girlish Sophie. Next year Londoners heard her again in The Magic Flute, called her one of the best Mozart singers alive. She had three glorious years in Oslo, Stockholm and Copenhagen...