Word: xiv
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outstanding among the books of the Paris exhibit is the "Cabinet du Rol," printed in the seventeenth century at the order of Louis XIV. These elaborate folios are a vivid record of the festivals, tournaments and state entries into the capital. The University possesses one of the few complete sets...
...troops in the South Pacific, the exploits of Fiji scouts on Bougainville are already legendary. The smiling, coal-black British colonials, tall, husky and soldierly, have deeply impressed G.I.s with their jungle craft and cool courage. One whom troops of the U.S. XIV Army Corps will long remember was Corporal Sefanaia Sukanaivalu...
...From the XIV Corps came word last week that a Victoria Cross had gone posthumously to Corporal Sefanaia Sukanaivalu...
...from listening to innumerable U.S. phonograph records. Paris kept up its hot concerts. When the German authorities, sensing sedition, looked in, they found the St. Louis Blues had become La Tristesse de St. Louis. The said St. Louis, the Germans were told, was of course none other than Louis XIV...
...brother of former Empress Zita of Austria-Hungary, week after the induction of his nephews (Archdukes) Felix and Charles Ludwig. The nephews will probably wind up in the much-criticized battalion of Austrian nationals promoted by brother Pretender Otto, but Uncle Gaëtan, a descendant of Louis XIV, is a French citizen and ineligible...