Word: frederick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Princess Ingrid wore no jewels. On her head was a small wreath of myrtle. She wore the lace and carefully preserved orange blossoms that her mother had worn at her own wedding 30 years ago. Her bouquet was a small bunch of lilies of the valley. Sober Crown Prince Frederick wore the blue-black uniform of a Danish naval officer with a blue sash. To the chancel rail came lantern-jawed Archbishop Erling Eidem, and after him the Princess repeated...
...Ingrid, take you Frederick, my lawful husband, to love you through sorrow and pleasure and as a symbol I accept from you this ring...
...Scandinavian royalty lead simple, democratic lives, but perhaps nowhere in the world but Copenhagen do socialites find out what train to take by merely telephoning the Crown Prince. Crown Prince Frederick's private number is listed in Copenhagen's public book, and his particular hobby is memorizing railroad time tables. It is his proud boast that he knows the departure, fare, distance and time to other European capitals of every good train out of Copenhagen, gladly advises his friends. Music is his other great hobby; in the Royal Opera in Copenhagen he follows every performance with...
...that her U.S. companions could not. The Britons boasted of their many choral societies and forthwith choral singing became bustling Emma Fisher's platform. Last spring she visited Detroit, talked to influential citizens whose enthusiasm grew strong when the Juilliard Foundation offered to lend $5,000, when Mrs. Frederick M. Alger agreed to head the festival committee. The Alger name is big in Detroit. Old Michiganders remember the "General," rich from lumber and iron, who served President McKinley as Secretary of War. The General's Son Frederick was not too social to be an ardent American Legionary...
...month for festivals throughout the U.S., the month when Bethlehem, Pa. makes its annual bow to Bach, when Conductor Frederick Stock takes his Chicago Symphony to Cornell College, Iowa, and on to Ann Arbor, Mich., where local choristers have long sung like professionals. Cincinnati's biennial festival took five days last week. Soloists were there from Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. Seven hundred schoolchildren sang at the Saturday matinee. Trained adults were well equal to Mendelssohn's Elijah, to Bach's St. Matthew Passion. Conductor Eugene Goossens had prepared three premieres especially for the occasion: Atalanta...