Word: fru
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sinister witch Aase, the bibulous druggist and his crony, the hotelkeeper; the postmaster's flirtatious wife, the village swains, masons. et al. Readers to whom Scandinavian literature is synonymous with gloom will find themselves agreeably surprised into many a chuckle over the mock courtship of Druggist Holm and Fru Hagen; the rival evangelists and their war over the Holy Ghost; the hit-or-miss conversations between a visiting Englishman and the squire's sister (carried on largely, out of politeness to the guest's linguistic shortcomings, in peasant profanity). In a rousingly successful benefit concert the final...
...Stated Fru Bang very simply: "I gave mother eternal life. Once she tried suicide and I was afraid she would make another attempt and lose eternal life. Therefore I had to do it. I gave her an overdose of her regular medicine...
...preacher, Rev. Johannes Engel, contributed: "We all thought the Baroness had died of natural causes. Fru Else came to me. ... I was obliged to tell the Baron...
...Fru Bang silenced everyone and declared: "Should I meet the man I chose for my husband, I would have to tell him and he would shrink from me. Nor could I conceive children, who one day might ask me whether rumors were true that I slew my mother. The only way for me is to confess publicly and regain my peace of mind and soul...
Expressions of sympathy and commiseration were heaped on Fru Bang last week from far & wide. The Danish Minister of Justice. C. Th. Zahle, who is responsible for her just trial, sympathized: "To me there is no evidence of criminal temperament in this case. But, on the contrary, love and pity for suffering. The new Danish penal code contains a provision for reducing the punishment to a minimum in cases where the sufferer asked assistance to die. Unfortunately for Else, however, the new code does not come into force until 1933, and the code of 1866, which is still in force...