Word: danish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married-Princess Erik of Denmark, 39, onetime Lois Frances Booth of Ottawa, whose marriage to Prince Erik of Denmark was annulled this year; to Thorkild Juelsberg, 34, her Danish secretary; in Zurich...
Regarding the Carlsberg Breweries, it might interest you to know that they have up to recently used since 1886 as a trademark the Swastika, later adopted by Hitler, and hence doing the Danish beer so much harm that the brewery had to discontinue using...
That also reminds me of the many times your magazine and also The March of Time have spoken and written about the old German gods Wodin and Thor, etc. These are essentially Danish, from away back into the dark 400 A.D. and were known as Odin and Thor, hence the weekdays, Onsdag (Wednesday) & Torsdag (Thursday) ; and Fredag (Friday) from Freja (j pronounced as y), Goddess of Beauty and Intelligence...
...Danish castle which William Shakespeare had in mind when he wrote Hamlet was Kronborg Castle, whose sombre walls and pinnacles frown across the narrow sound between Sweden and Denmark. A state property for centuries, the old place was a military barracks until ten years ago, when it became a marine museum. Last week a troupe from London's Old Vic company played the drama of the melancholy prince on the designated spot-at Kronborg Castle. Directed by Tyrone Guthrie, Laurence Olivier (The Green Bay Tree) took the name part opposite Vivien Leigh's Ophelia. Cadets of the Danish...
...Scandinavian countries continue to meet from time to time in the Swedish capital to discuss their ultimate aims-to get trade independence, to revert to their traditional neutrality, to maintain the democracy of the north. Though Denmark is one of Europe's most pacifist nations, the Danish Premier, bearded Social Democrat Thorvald Stauning, is beginning to see the sense of Sweden's dictum that disarmed neutrality is a practical impossibility. Denmark has long been disarmed to the point of danger; according to military experts she would not be able to defend her capital or her boundaries for more...