Word: xiv
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first cotillion is scheduled to be held from 10 until 3 o'clock on Monday, February 3 in the Louis XIV Ballroom of the Hotel Somerset. Providing music for the ball will be Vaughn Monroe and his nationally known orchestra and Harry Marshard, who will care for the Viennese Waltzing...
...House passed the bill, 206-to-139. With Mr. Ramspeck to the White House last week must have marched the ghosts of all the Presidents who have been harassed to desperation by appointments; President James A. Garfield, slain by a disappointed office seeker; perhaps even the shadow of Louis XIV, who said: "Every time I fill a vacant office I make 100 malcontents and one ingrate...
...still a great preaching, teaching and missionary order, effective enough to breed enemies both inside and outside the Catholic Church. The Jesuits have been suppressed, at one time or another, in nearly every nation in which they have labored. Under political pressure from Spain, Portugal and France, Pope Clement XIV suppressed the order in 1773. Pius VII revived it in 1814. Under Franco and Petain the Jesuits have been freed from decrees aimed against them by Republican Spain and France. Last January they were given permission to enter Greece for the first time since the 17th Century. Only country which...
...first, the plot would seem to be thread-bare, even implausible in spots. Well, it is. And many of the speeches are dull and the minor characters poorly drawn. But Gladys George dominates the play like Louis XIV's sun. And like him, "la piece...
...forced" to do something on economic grounds, then to do that thing is economically sound. Being "forced" to fight for an economic advantage will make it to our advantage to fight-and whenever anyone speaks now of economic advantages he has unemployment in his mind. Louis XIV repented his policy of war for profit . . . and we will repent it on ours if we ever follow that policy...