Word: oslo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Smart international yachting folk who have sailed up the pine-fringed Kristiania Fjord to the capital of Norway, Oslo, will remember Castle Oskarshal. As they cast anchor off the Royal Yacht Club, in the wimpling Frognerkilen, they had Oslo on their starboard and suburban Bygdo, with its Castle Oskarshal, on their port...
...Norway's architectural family skeleton. Cheaply and hastily thrown together when the present dynasty of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg was established in Norway in 1905, it compares pitiably with Sweden's imposing Kungliga Slottet in Stockholm (Venice of the North), whence came last week Princess Martha to Oslo. As every Scandinavian knows the Kings of Sweden were also the elected Kings of Norway from 1814 until 1905, when the Storting (parliament) dissolved the union with Sweden, elected Prince Christian of Denmark King of Norway, proclaimed him "King Haakon VII"-thus reviving the traditions of the ancient and extinct...
Thus last week nothing could have been more appropriate than the arrival at Oslo of Britain's tall Duke and plump Duchess of York in the quality of wedding guests. "Hello, Aunt Maud," said the Duke, and Her Majesty responded graciously, "Welcome to Norway, Albert." En route from London the British royalties passed incognito through Germany and achieved the first visit to Berlin ever made by a member of the House of Windsor...
...what looked like a hearty afterthought, Vice President Dawes and eight members of Congress scribbled their names last week upon a cablegram to the Nobel Committee, Norwegian Storting, Oslo. The cablers declared that they, "duly qualified for making recommendations," did recommend U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg for the Nobel Peace Prize. His and M. Briand's Multilateral Peace Treaty was advanced in his favor...
...from a vague source some weeks ago, that Mr. Kellogg ought to be recommended. But memories and elbows were jogged just in time. The fact was discovered that members of the Interparliamentary Union, members of Congress and previous Nobel prize men are "duly qualified" for recommending. And off to Oslo went the prayer of, besides Mr. Dawes, the following: Speaker Longworth, Senators Shipstead and Schall and Representative Newton of Minnesota (the Kellogg State); Senators Burton (oldtime peace man) and Fess of Ohio, Senator Walsh of Montana...