Word: knud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime Cook had arrived in Copenhagen, where he received a tremendous welcome, including a gold medal from the Royal Danish Geographical Society. A handful of exploring notables-Roald Amundsen, Knud Rasmussen, Otto Sverdrup, Major-General Adolphus Washington Greely-favored Cook's claim over Peary's. But in the U. S. the National Geographic Society assembled a quorum of experts who gave the decision to Peary, and a bigger gold medal (four inches across). The controversy has not yet died...
Harlem's hotspots last week had 45 knowing visitors. The 45 were delegates to the American Musicological Society's first international congress, climaxing a strenuous six-day program in Manhattan. Such eminent musicologists as Yugoslavia's Dragan Plamenac, Denmark's Knud Jeppesen, Venezuela's Juan Lecuna, watched the Big Apple, the Lindy Hop, the Shag, drank what there was to drink. At the Savoy Ballroom, Bandmaster Erskine Hawkins swung Bach, Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C Minor in their honor. The bolder musicologists ventured gingerly out on the floor, soon got limber...
...POET AND Two PAINTERS-Knud Merrild-Viking...
...poet of this book's title is D. H. Lawrence. The painters are Knud Merrild and Kai Götzsche, two strapping Danish immigrants who met Lawrence in Taos, N. M. in 1922, lived that winter with him and his wife, Frieda, in a crude ranch shack which they rented to escape Mabel Dodge (Luhan). Among the flood of memoirs-mostly by women-which have appeared since Lawrence's death in 1930, this one comes nearest to giving an objective picture of Lawrence...
Constitutionally bilious and inclined to be morose in the morning, at heart he is a "family man," specially devoted to his only grandchild, 2-year-old Princess Elizabeth, daughter of Christian's younger son Prince Knud. At home with the Queen, he twiddles the radio for her like any shopkeeper...