Word: denmark
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Thus, on her 18th birthday, was Margrethe Alexandrine Torhildur Ingrid, popularly known as Daisy, installed as Tronfolger-heir to the throne and some day Queen of Denmark, of the Wends and the Goths, Duchess of Slesvig, Holstein, Siormarn, Ditmarsken, Lauenburg and Oldenburg, and 50th sovereign of the oldest continuous kingdom in Europe...
...grandfather, King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden, she acquired a love for archaeology, and her royal father's subjects were treated to a succession of press photographs of a dirty-faced young princess earnestly grubbing about on all fours in some muddy excavation. In 1953 the people of Denmark overwhelmingly voted to change the law that, since the first Margrethe, has kept females from the throne...
Ordet. A luminously beautiful religious allegory made by Denmark's Carl (Day of Wrath) Dreyer (TIME...
...test of a writer is whether he can find words for the things that are too terrible for words. Denmark's Karl Bjarnhof, 60, passes the test brilliantly in The Stars Grow Pale, the sensitive story of a boy slowly going blind. In Author Bjarnhof's hands, a theme that might have been merely harrowing or touching takes on the larger complexities of a boy's awakening sensibilities in a small provincial town amid a home life both flintily pious and grindingly poor. What brands the young hero's soul is not the iron of personal...
RUSSIA'S AEROFLOT airline out-bargained little Denmark, won rights to fly over Denmark and on to West, which Russia needs before it can open service to Britain and, eventually, to the U.S. But U.S.S.R. turned down Denmark's bid for on-beyond rights from Moscow to Tokyo...