Word: danish
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Edward VII, late British King-Emperor, had a wasp-waisted tomboy daughter Maud who swam, rowed, handled a yacht smartly, ran a typewriter, bound books, carved wood, played chess, advocated female suffrage-energetic traits which she inherited from her Danish mother, the dazzling and haughty British Queen-Empress Alexandra, sister of still more dazzling, still more imperious Marie Feodorovna, Empress of All The Russias. The two Empresses were resolved that Maud should become at least a queen- of what...
...Danish warship a young man darned his own socks, sewed on his own buttons. The two Empresses did not think much of him, though he was their nephew and a prince. But his cousin Tomboy Maud, against her mother's council, fell in love with him, and with her father's encouragement married him July 22, 1896. He was then promoted to the rank of lieutenant in the Danish Royal Navy...
...authentic Norwegian Royal House had been extinct for some 27 generations, for more than half a millennium. The Norwegian people had learned to speak Danish under Danish kings for several hundred years before their "union" with Sweden. In 1905, although they might not exactly want to pick a king from Denmark, could the Norwegian people, all things considered, do better than to choose the husband of Tomboy Princess Maud, daughter of Mighty Britain, niece of Colossal Russia? In a second plebiscite 259,563 Norwegians voted for the young man who used to darn socks, sew on buttons; 69,264 voted...
Married. Morgan Foster Larson, 48, Governor of New Jersey; and Ada Schmidt, 25, Danish companion & secretary of Governor Larson's mother; in a surprise wedding at a family party; in Perth Amboy...
...22?Hearing of the twelve-million-pound claim v. Great Britain of the heirs of onetime Sultan Abdul Hamid II for properties in Egypt, Iraq, Palestine & Cyprus; before a mixed tribunal with a Danish president, one Turkish and one British judge; at Istanbul...