Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five years ago, Schoolmistress Anna Leonowens (Anna and the King of Siam) went to Bangkok to spread the blessings of "the English language, science and literature" among members of the royal family. It was more than half a century later when young Dr. Niels Eskelund arrived in Siam from Denmark...
...hear the rumble in the elephant's belly"), drank Haig & Haig with the King. Later he moved to Shanghai, where he built a prosperous practice among the Chinese by knocking 10% off his bill (after first adding 10% to the charge). When his son went out from Denmark to join him in 1935, Dr. Eskelund's prestige was already high. Said the sign of one Chinese practitioner: "Dr. Chu, Dental Surgeon, former chief assistant to Dr. Eskelund, former dentist to the King of Siam...
...role any more. He reasoned: "If you take 43 as Hamlet's own age, that makes his mother 60 at the very least. . . and no woman of 60 in her right mind is going to carry on around Elsinore the way that Gertrude of Denmark does...
...Norway, Denmark, Sweden...
Zechariah Chafee patiently countered: to omit censorship from its discussions would leave the conference "playing Hamlet without a Prince of Denmark." Lomakin smiled. Chafee conceded that some U.S. newspapers might slant the news or be guilty of inaccuracies and omissions, but Government selection of what is news "could be equally wrong." He smiled wryly at Lomakin as he quoted Russia's Leo Tolstoy: "The thought of censorship hangs over me like a cloud, and the years slip by with nothing done...