Word: xiv
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Louis XIV-C. S. Forester-Dodd, Mead...
Every day for over half a century, Louis XIV, every inch a king, played slave to. etiquette. Epitome of the day's procedure was his royal arising, witnessed daily by some 300 fawning souls. Only the Family could observe his semi-divinity lying in bed, but the next order of noblemen was admitted to see him dip his hand in holy water, climb out of bed, and don his dressing gown. The third order then entered to see the king shave and put on his wig. And last came the final rabble of cardinals, marshals, courtiers, to observe...
...HAWK-Robert W. Chambers-Appleton ($2.00). For years Author Chambers has dominated the realm of high romance. His present flyleaf lists two columns of unaccountably sound-sellers, many of which have dealt with cloak and sword, picturesque oaths and spirited ladies. Louis XIV being his favorite monarch, he now weaves around this "Sun King's" favorite hunting companion a somewhat laborious tale of French colonization in Quebec, complete with bloody Indian skirmishes and pious persecution of heretics. As for love interest, 8-year-old Countess Palladine, the sole survivor of a lurid Turkish massacre, is rescued thrillingly...
...Emerson D Romance Philology 5 Emerson D Social Ethics 29 Emerson D 2 o'clock. (XVII) Botany 10 Gray Herb. Economics 39 Harvard 2 Music 1a Music Bldg Music 1b Music Bldg. Zoology 7a Harvard 2 Zoology 7c Harvard 2 Zoology 7a-7c Harvard 2 SATURDAY, JUNE 2. (XIV) Anthropology 2 Sever 30 Chemistry 7 Sever 17 Chinese 3 Sever 17 Class. Philology 28 Sever 17 Class. Philology 70 Sever 18 Comp. Literature 13 Sever 17 Economics 9a Sever 36 English 35b New Lect. Hall Memorial Hall English 78 Sever 5 English 83 Sever 36 Fine Arts 4a Robinson Hall...
...portraits of the ladies who belonged to that dissolute court managed by Louis XIV of France, there often appears the dark and ambiguous figure of a black dwarf. In an article published by the Messenger, famed Negro periodical, one J. A. Rogers offers a by no means unlikely explanation of the pictorial presence of these creatures...