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...hydrogen gas, to meet her at Spitzbergen, the dirigible Norge obeyed the commands of her Italian chief, Colonel Nobile, hurrying over Europe by day and night. Her landing at Pulham Field, England, was accomplished after much maneuvering. Various supercargoes were discharged and she left, the evening after arriving, for Oslo. Grey morning found her feeling her way along the Danish coast. Soon after noon she dipped to the royal palace at Oslo, to Explorer Amundsen's villa on a nearby fjord, and settled rather clumsily and with much ground assistance to her mooring mast. The populace had no chance...
...those aboard the Norge was a stalwart named Amundsen. Despatches did not give his first name, simply calling him "young Amundsen." Had he by chance been named Roald, confusion might have arisen, for "the" Roald Amundsen ? "Old Amundsen"* as the despatches may yet have it ? was at Oslo, Norway, being dined and wined by his countrymen, in company with his fellow explorer, the American Lincoln Ellsworth. They will join Colonel Nobile on the Norge at Spitzbergen and form a joint command...
...bubbling wine, and Dr. Rolf Thormessen stood by to receive the vessel in the name of the Aero Club of Norway. A silk flag from King Haakon and Queen Maud was run aloft at the bag's stern. Explorers Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth entrained next day for Oslo, Norway, leaving Lieutenant Riiser-Larsen and the Norge's designer, Colonel Nobile, to conduct the Norge to Spitzbergen as soon as weather favored. There the chiefs will join her for the great adventure of flying over uncharted white wastes to Nome, Alaska. The base ship Hobby reached Spitzbergen a fortnight...
...person of Andrew J. Volstead, a little man of Scandinavian descent who was born in Minnesota in 1861. His father was a Norwegian immigrant who built the log cabin on the farm where Andrew was born. His mother was the daughter of a market gardener, who lived just outside Oslo, then Christiania. One way and another young Andrew completed his education at St. Olaf's College and prepared for the bar. After a time he settled down to practice in Granite Falls, Minn. The year he arrived they made him attorney of Yellow Medicine County. He had Germans, Scandinavians, Canadians...
...fundamental democracy of Scandinavians is traditional, ingrained. King Haakon VII and Queen Maud of Norway habitually walk about the streets of Oslo (the capital) completely unattended, sometimes even escape being recognized by their subjects for hours. King Haakon's elder brother, King Christian X of Denmark, adopts only a slightly greater reserve toward his subjects when he and Queen Alexandria drive about Copenhagen. At Stockholm, Queen Victoria of Sweden often amiably looks on while King Gustaf V plays tennis with Swedish army officers, or with almost anyone to whom he happens to have taken a fancy. Therefore, Scandinavian newspapers noted...