Word: danish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some 80 clipper ships smuggled the drug to Chinese dealers along the 4,000-mile coast of the mainland. Reckless men poured in from every land. When the potent Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corp. was founded in 1864, it was backed by 14 different firms-British, American, German, Indian, Turkish, Danish-and its first manager was a Frenchman. A British visitor warned that "anyone compelled to come by duty to Hong Kong should have a stout heart and a lively trust in the mercy...
...sunny afternoon in Manhattan's Central Park, Denmark's visiting King Frederik IX and Queen Ingrid appeared with Danish-born Pianist-Funnyman Victor Borge beside a statue of Denmark's greatest teller of fairy tales, Hans Christian Andersen. Borge, wearing half-spectacles "for very short stories.'' read two Andersen tales to some 100 bemused tots. The children could not quite feign indifference to a real King and Queen, and at one point a local lad asked chainsmoking Frederik pointblank: "King, where is your crown? I thought all Kings wore crowns." Affable Frederik explained that...
...merger with three other Lutheran denominations-the 605,000-member Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church, organized in 1860 by U.S. citizens of Swedish birth or ancestry; the 36,000-member Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church (Suomi Synod), founded in 1890; the 24,000-member American Evangelical Lutheran Church organized by Danish missionaries in 1872. The move to merge, said United Lutheran President Franklin Clark Fry, was a "historic and momentous decision...
...Roquefort. Two months ago the association won a U.S. district court temporary injunction against an importer's "Roquefort" cheese made in Hungary. Last week it won a satisfying victory: a consent decree and damages of $1,250 from San Francisco's famed Trader Vic restaurant for putting Danish blue cheese into Roquefort dressing. "Trader Vic's can afford it," explains the association's boss, New York Lawyer Frank O. Fredericks, "but if most restaurants had to fork up $1,250, they'd have to close their doors. It will serve as a dandy warning...
Today's "Danish modern" is in a sense the climax of that tradition-a simple, sane and sanitary style suitable for all. The Met show has its full share of pleasing examples: the frugally lined furniture of Kaare Klint and Arne Jacobsen, the silver of Georg Jensen, bright-hued pottery by Axel Salto and Arnold Krog, and the toys of Kay Bojessen that combine beauty with humor. But despite the riches of the present, the fact remains that Denmark's most spectacular moments of majesty come from long...