Word: noting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hour later venerable King Gustaf V, 81, was at the Stockholm railway station and Swedish newshawks watched attentively to note how many kisses His Majesty would bestow on his fellow sovereigns Danish King Christian X, 69, and that monarch's brother, Norwegian King Haakon VII, 67. In 1905 Norway abruptly broke away from union with Sweden, electing the Danish "Sailor Prince" Karl to become King of Norway as Haakon VII, and for many years afterward Swedish resentment over this remained keen. Thus in 1914, when Gustaf V asked the Scandinavian sovereigns to meet him at Malmo, Sweden, to adopt...
...modern war were only a little more like sport, Tennist Gustaf and his sterling Swedes would sleep easier of nights. Last month the Riksdag at Stockholm voted a belated 46,000,000 for defense measures and King Gustaf in his Speech from the Throne bravely sounded this realistic note...
...hoofing act to write the Great American Ballet. He meets a Russian ballet troupe, falls in love with its gorgeous premiere danseuse (Zorina). When timid Junior, pinch-hitting as a black slave in the Russian ballet, gets scared and runs wild, critics rave at the new humorous note, and its "angel" orders the shocked maestro (Alan Hale) to produce Junior's U. S. ballet, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, in which he later does some neat hoofing...
...Note: The president of Columbia University is also the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace...
...Note: Mr. Roberts is the well-known author of the recent best-seller, "Northwest Passage...