Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fine, somewhat spoiled son. For once, Queen Gertrude is young enough, and beautiful enough, to explain all the excitement she generates in the Ghost, his murderer and her son. Indeed, Eileen Herlie, who is only 27, has some trouble looking old enough to be the beauteous Majesty of Denmark. But her performance is a profoundly exciting job of tragedy in the grand manner...
Slowly, Anne walked through the hall on the arm of her uncle Erik Frederik Christian Alexander, former Prince of Denmark. She wore a white satin damask dress and her suntanned, elfin face was haloed in billowing tulle. When the rings had been exchanged and the couple's crowns symbolically tied together, the Archbishop intoned: "With the help of God, dance!" and the bride & groom made three turns around a table. At this point, the couple should have been showered with rice; but rice is scarce. The gesture was omitted...
...Russia's Grand Duchess Olga, youngest sister of the late Czar Nicholas, was Canada-bound after 27 years of farming in Denmark. The Russians had begun to question her status, so Olga & family left Denmark to avoid embarrassing the government, to farm in Canada...
Tired but happy: Denmark's King Frederik and Queen Ingrid, after a holiday at their hunting lodge. The maid fell ill and couldn't work. A neighbor found the Queen with a dishrag, begged to help out in some way. Came the King's voice from another room: "Do not think of that ... I have to do the vacuum-cleaning...
When Dizzy Gillespie hit Sweden and Denmark, the halls were barely big enough to hold all the beboppers; in Paris, zealous French zazous (jazz fans) came to blows over him. Last week, Manhattan's Carnegie Hall was full of beboppers. Bebop* was apparently no laughing matter...