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Word: occasional (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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In a special "Schoolradio" broadcast, Danish children were having their first occasion to listen to their Royal Family's teatime conversation. The program was unrehearsed. King, Queen and Royal Princesses were just their normal selves. Even the coughs of five-year-old Princess Benedikte and of Anne-Marie, 2...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENMARK: Royal Teatime | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

When Radio Reporter Axel Dahlerup asked the King to speak into the microphone, Frederik said that his children were "as charming as anyone else's" but also could be very noisy on occasion, "so that sometimes you feel you could strangle them." He then presented the radio reporter to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENMARK: Royal Teatime | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

For the 200,000 party faithful who showed up at Gandhinagar near Jaipur, the Congress session was an occasion for letting off steam, like a U.S. national political convention. Such relaxation is the exception rather than the rule in the Indian National Congress. The Congress is not only India'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Censorious Bachelor | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

Joseph Stalin observed his 69th birthday quietly in the Kremlin. The Soviet press and public, obeying instructions, ignored the occasion.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Homebodies | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

Outside the drab yellow walls of the Covent Garden Opera House last week, Londoners stamped their feet in the foot-numbing chill. Some had been waiting six hours for the gallery door to open. Backstage, Choreographer Frederick Ashton, in a skirt and a high wig, rushed around with last-minute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cinderella in London | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

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