Word: oslo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Particularly joyous was Norway's Oslo. There the Storting suspended all parliamentary business while Oslo's Hambro, the nation's stern speaker, led a barking Norwegian cheer. Appropriately enough; Norsk Kron Prins Olav was not there to hear. With gallant stealth he had slipped off to Stockholm and Sveriges Princessa Märtha Sofia Lovisa Dagmar Thyra...
...Trenton, N. J. Calls in the first eight months of 1928 were three times the total of Jan.-Aug., 1927. The 12½-hour service has been lengthened to 14½ hours. Now connected with the trans-Atlantic circuit are Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Antwerp, Brussels, Berlin, Paris, Copenhagen, Oslo, Malmo, Stockholm and eight Mexican cities. The latest extension, completed last fortnight, carries the service to Guadalajara, Mexico...
...Municipal Auditorium once more they heard what Nils Parmann, banker from Oslo, Norway, a new brother...
Between banquets and lectures, at Oslo, the delegates and His Majesty and Crown Prince Olaf attended gala performances at the National Theatre of six Ibsen plays: 1) Brand (1866), the tragic story of a clergyman who places duty to God majestically above earthly love but is killed by an earthly avalanche; 2) The League of Youth (1869), one of Ibsen's few boisterous comedies; 3) Ghosts (1881), in which a son is smitten by Fate in the guise of inherited venereal disease; 4) An Enemy of the People (1882), wherein the honesty of one man makes him the enemy...
...fame of Ibsen has "put Norway on the map," for ignorant millions would otherwise scarcely differentiate it from Denmark or Sweden. Perhaps the most familiar tradition of Ibsen is that of an old man who would sit for hours at a bay window of the Grand Cafe in Oslo (then Christiania) staring with unseeing eyes at the bodies of his countrymen but piercing their souls with uncanny insight. His reward is that the theatre-goers of today, who constitute for him "posterity," have already witnessed a greater number of showings of each of his major plays than the sum total...