Word: skane
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...from Sweden, a tall figure in a frock coat advanced toward the two little men waiting. The stooping little man with white hair, turned to the little man with the wry face and exclaimed: "Your Excellency, may I present His Royal Highness Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Skane, Crown Prince of Sweden?" ¶ Animated conversation ensued. Five minutes later Mrs. Coolidge in similar fashion received Her Royal Highness Princess Louise. Animated conversation ensued. Twenty minutes later the royal callers retired to the Swedish Legation. They had hardly arrived there when Colonel Sherwood A. Cheney, military aide to the President, followed them...
...Woman, Boat. Above six feet in height, full of face and broad of figure: Oscar Frederick William Olaf Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Skane and Crown Prince of Sweden. Small, dark, sharp of feature: Louise, Crown Princess of Sweden, daughter of Prince Louis Battenberg, second cousin of the Prince of Wales, great-granddaughter of the great and plump Victoria. Under their feet: the motor-ship Gripsholm making its way into New York Harbor...
...Minister to Sweden- last week had bursts of activity preparatory to one and the same coming event. Minister Bliss straightened out his papers and left Stockholm for Washington. The Yale secretary prepared an announcement, because His Royal Highness, Gustaf Adolf, Crown Prince of Sweden and Duke of Skane, is this month coming to the U. S. to attend the unveiling of a monument to Viking Leif Ericsson* at the Capital. Minister Bliss must help President Coolidge entertain. Yale, which has not had a special convocation since Marshal Foch visited it in 1921, † is going to confer upon the Prince...
...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 with calm approval last week that when H. R. H. Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, Duke of Skane, recently saw a certain insignificant U. S. sailor on the point of drowning, he doffed his royal shoes and coat, jumped in, rescued the sailor and finally succeeded in keeping the whole affair dark for some weeks...