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...Carthusian (Chartreuse) monks for the excellent liqueurs that bear their names. Few Protestant church folk are celebrated for making or vending spirits. Lately, Lutheran Denmark has been pondering the idea. It began at a ministers' meeting held by Rt. Rev. A. J. Rud, Lutheran Bishop of Fyen (Funen Island). Bishop Rud told his ministers about Pastor Keiding of Valby, suburb of Copenhagen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Gammel Oestengaard | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

Later in the day the King and Queen motored into Copenhagen to receive at the Amalienborg Palace he congratulations of various deputations from their loyal subjects. Some of these loyal subjects had wished to buy the King and Queen a summer palace on the island of Funen, but King Christian, hearing of the plan, suggested that such a gift would hardly be in keeping with ;he times, and that anyway he had more castles than he could afford to maintain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENMARK: Silver Wedding | 5/5/1923 | See Source »

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