Word: danish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...member of the audience stated that a Danish drama critic with decades of experience and love for the theatre had finally concluded that the three chief traits in the acting profession were egotism, eroticism and exhibitionism. This elicited a vehement rebuttal from Strasberg, who then took his leave, like Marechal Villars from Louis XIV, by exclaiming, "God save me from my friends; I can protect myself from my enemies...
Twelve sackclothed vagrants with no visible means of support gathered in A.D. 1210 in the little Italian hill town of Assisi and started what Danish Roman Catholic Historian Johannes Jorgensen called "the most powerful attempt since Christ to make the world truly Christian." Their leader was a gentle little man who began life as a gay young gallant with a yen for glory-until, riding off to war at 22, he heard a voice ask, "Why do you desert the Lord?" Not long after, Francis of Assisi turned to prayer and fasting. Haled into an episcopal court for selling some...
Life Strength. Bearing a Greek first name ("life strength"), Behn came out of the Virgin Islands, son of a Danish father and French mother, began in 1898 as a $3-a-week bank clerk in New York. With his brother Hernand he ran a small sugar brokerage house in Puerto Rico, in 1914 launched his real career by buying a tiny telephone company. When Sosthenes returned from World War I as a U.S. lieutenant colonel (with a Distinguished Service Medal), the brothers Behn issued 50,000 shares of common stock at $68.50 a share, founded...
Died. Dr. Thorvald Madsen, 87, Danish bacteriologist, President (1921-40) of the League of Nations' Health Committee and Commission on Biological Standardization and a leader in world efforts to standardize serums and vaccines; in Copenhagen...
...Gaza Strip for a long "interim period." But one morning a mob of 300 Palestinian Arabs, shouting "Long Live Nasser" and waving slick-sloganed placards that could hardly have been printed in Gaza, began battering in the doors of the UNEF's police-station headquarters. Hastily mustered Danish and Norwegian members of the UNEF guard drove off the rioters by tossing tear-gas grenades and firing warning shots into the air, but not before a young bystander named Mohammed el Moushref fell beside his bicycle with a fatal ricochet-bullet wound in his chest...