Word: haakon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haakon: "Gratified at the news of the safe arrival of Captain Amundsen and his associates in Alaska, I desire to offer to Your Majesty and people of Norway my congratulations on the success which attended the bold undertaking of this hardy and intrepid descendant of the Vikings. It is a matter of great satisfaction that one of my countrymen should have been associated with him in this daring and courageous exploit...
Within the stark-white Royal Palace at Oslo, the capital of Norway, a tall man who carries himself like a ramrod and seldom smiles, waited last week in the expectation that an area several times larger than his present kingdom would soon be added to it. King Haakon VII of Norway knew that the great polar dirigible Norge** ("Norway") would shortly set out to fly over an unexplored area exceeding one-fourth million square miles, the icecap of the world. (See AERONAUTICS.) At the stern of the Norge flies a silk Norwegian flag, the gift of King Haakon and Queen...
...Haakon VII. The monarch who may thus shortly reign over a large part of the two extremities of the globe is the second son of King Frederick VIII and brother of Christian X of Denmark. In 1896 King Edward VII of Britain prudently caused the marriage of his third daughter, Maud, to Haakon, then Prince Carl of Denmark. In 1905 the Norwegian Storting (Parliament), emboldened by the benign attitude of the British Lion, declared dissolved the union of Norway and Sweden (1814-1905) and elected as king of Norway, Carl of Denmark, who promptly took the favorite name...
When Edward VII looked about for a hardy son-in-law, he was reputedly not unpleased at reports that Prince Carl of Denmark could command any ship capable of being sailed, in language sufficiently lurid to cow the most rebellious forecastle hand. Since Carl has become Haakon, he has not so much mellowed as acquired reserve. Cheerful, kindly, stout of heart, he conceals these characteristics behind the bearing of a martinet...
...people have penetrated by intuition to the true man; unquestionably love and respect their King. Said a writer in the Paris Matin recently: "Haakon's wife adores him?but who does...