Word: vi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter to the New York Herald Tribune, a reader suggested a prayer for landlords, taken from the Book of Common Prayer of England's Edward VI, who died in 1553: "We heartily pray Thee to send Thy Holy Spirit into the hearts of them that possess the grounds and pastures of the earth, that they, remembering themselves to be Thy tenants, may not rack or stretch out the rents of their houses or lands, nor yet take unreasonable fines or money after the manner of covetous worldlings, but so to let them out that the inhabitants thereof...
...Laurence Olivier was knighted by King George VI in Buckingham Palace. Darkly handsome Actor Olivier, who is currently filming Hamlet, appeared for the knighting ceremony with hair dyed blond. Said he: "I was nervous. . . . There wasn't any rehearsal...
Lady Iris Mountbatten, 27, pretty great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, cousin to George VI and Admiral Viscount Mountbatten, was back to shirtsleeves. Since arriving in the U.S. last October, her blonde ladyship has lent her name to a line of Indian textiles, to a dancing school, to a chewing-gum ad ("[Gum] is the height of good taste"). Now, she announced, she had a job, as plain Miss Mountbatten, in the Manhattan publicity offices of Columbia Pictures Corp., and liked the U.S. so much that she had decided to stay...
...Argentine underprivileged, his aid to war-torn countries of Europe, his contributions to papal charities. At interview's end, the Pope gave her a handsome rosary. Then Evita went on to visit the Borgia apartments (which are still haunted, Italians say, by the ghosts of libertine Pope Alexander VI and his daughter Lucrezia), and to pray at St. Peter's, where some 100 curious onlookers waiting under the front colonnade broke into applause...
Laurence Olivier, currently screening Hamlet, was right in there with Sir Henry Irving: for his services to Britain's stage & screen, he was made a knight* by George VI. He could now play his Hamlet as Sir Laurence Olivier-and Vivien Leigh, if she wished, could play her forthcoming Anna Karenina as Lady Olivier...