Word: forretningen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Partner King. Even more than the Swedes, the Norwegians, the Dutch and the Belgians, the Danes regard their Crown and its wearer as honored (but not sanctified or adulated) elements of a partnership in the business of national living. They call it Forretningen Danmark (the business firm of Denmark) but the connotation is social and philosophical as well as commercial. On his daily horseback rides through Copenhagen, the King of Denmark nods to civilians, salutes ladies, chats with small boys or truckdrivers- and obeys traffic lights-not with the self-conscious condescension that is forced upon British royalty but with...
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