Word: copenhagen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wife, whom he suspected of deceiving him and being a Lesbian. Insanely jealous, he came to believe that Siri's children were not his (a suspicion he dramatized in his play, The Father). For a while Siri and August lived in a filthy old castle near Copenhagen, together with a mad Countess who played the hurdy-gurdy, a gypsy steward who practiced hypnotism, and a pack of wild dogs...
...under the hot sun; he had developed abscesses from sitting on the Hugin's wooden thwarts. The big red-and-white-striped sail had helped; but the crew had worked so hard at the oars that they had worn out the seats of their Wagnerian costumes, borrowed from Copenhagen's Royal Opera Company...
...Copenhagen, Rumania's deposed King Michael, 27, and Princess Anne, 25, visiting her family, left the baby, 2½-month-old Margrethe, with her grandparents and spent a carefree evening riding the merry-go-rounds and eating hot dogs at an amusement park...
Rumors that Washington Hostess Perle Mesta would be the next U.S. Ambassador to Denmark were getting a cool reception in some Copenhagen circles. "Nowadays in diplomacy," the conservative Berlingske Tidende delicately pointed out, "you do not ask questions about sex, but about qualifications...
...Idraetshuset gymnastic hall, Danes and their guests watched in astonishment as a blond Californian ran the badminton trunks off Malaya's great Ooi Teik Hock in the final of the Copenhagen Open. Pasadena-born Dr. Dave Freeman, 28, had not lost a singles match in ten years, but the Europeans had considered most of his victories minor-league stuff, scored against so-so U.S. opposition. In Copenhagen, he was playing in badminton's big league...