Word: ix
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...jacket clogged with enough medals for a NATO division, Wagnerian-size Tenor Lauritz Melchior chatted with Denmark's King Frederik IX at a celebration in Copenhagen of the Royal Guard's 300th anniversary. A guardsman himself in his nimble youth, Melchior crossed the Atlantic for a month's vacation in the old country with a 40-man delegation of Danish-American Guard grads, sang out loud and clear at the parade and at a festive veterans' dinner in the Tivoli Gardens...
...week, the Russians have to look back a century for a comparable triumph. That was when Franz Liszt, history's most vaunted piano virtuoso (and the teacher of the man who taught Van's first teacher-his mother), made his debut in St. Petersburg. Wearing Pope Pius IX's Order of the Golden Spur over his white cravat, his immaculate dress coat clanking with his other medals, his "shapely white hands" encased in doeskin gloves, he appeared, tossing his shoulder-length blond hair, before an audience of 3,000, who greeted him with "thunderous applause such...
...Hour I Wednesday, May 28 MWF 8 II Wednesday, May 21 MWF 9 III Friday, May 23 MWF 10 IV Thursday, May 29 MWF 11 V Tuesday, May 27 MWF 12 VI Thursday, May 22 MWF 1 VII Saturday, May 24 MWF 2 VIII Wednesday, May 28 MWF 3 IX Wednesday, May 28 MWF 4 X Tuesday, June 3 TTS 8 XI Monday, May 26 TTS 9 XII Saturday, May 31 TTS 10 XIII Monday, June 2 TTS 11 XIV Saturday, May 24 TTS 12 XV Tuesday, June 3 TTS 1 XVI Tuesday, June 3 TTS 2 XVII Thursday...
...morning last week, the wooden gates of Copenhagen's grey Amalienborg Palace swung open. Red-jacketed Royal Life Guards sprang smartly to attention as a Rolls-Royce bearing King Frederik IX and his pretty daughter turned slowly into the street. The day belonged to Princess Margrethe...
...found himself expelled from the Redemptorist Congregation on the ground that his trip had violated his vows of obedience and poverty. For the next seven months, the worried priest hurried from prelate to prefect, pleading the need for an English-language mission to the U.S. At last Pope Pius IX dispensed Father Hecker and four other priests from their Redemptorist vows, with the tacit understanding that they would live in community and form a new organization...