Word: danishness
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PELLE THE CONQUEROR An old man and his son on a Danish farm: sweet, stern, elemental, grand...
...being cold is being poor. At that time there weren't as many homeless people on the streets, and so I immediately thought of the Bowery, and I decided to put a pair of gloves on some poor fellow's hands just as my father had slipped free Danish rolls into customers' bags." Greenberg was then teaching sixth grade in a Brooklyn public school, and the following year, despite his modest salary, he bought 72 pairs of woolen gloves, took them to the Bowery, and handed them out (very timidly, he admits) to the destitute and the derelict...
...commuted between CERN and the Bohr Institute--or between Maria, the gorgeous blonde daughter of a German bassoonist, and Bonnie, my dark Danish damsel...
Every spring, residents of the tiny Danish island of Anholt, midway between Denmark and Sweden, eagerly await the arrival of the harbor seals that breed on the island's sandy beaches. This year, however, they have been witnesses to a mysterious season of death. So far, more than 150 dead and dying seals and their prematurely born pups have washed ashore; in the past few weeks, Lighthouse Keeper Einar Boisen and others have been picking up as many as 17 dead seals a day. Says Boisen: "We've started calling ourselves the death patrol...
...gaudy playground of the Cannes Film Festival, Clint Eastwood wins respect but a Danish epic wins the Palme...