Word: xv
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barry Was a Lady tells of a washroom attendant who wins $75,000 in a sweepstakes and tries to marry a nightclub singer. He drinks a Mickey Finn intended for his rival, and dreams that he is Louis XV and the singer Du Barry. This permits an unsurpassably false picture of court and boudoir high jinks at Versailles which, had they been true, would have considerably speeded up the Revolution...
...down your money and you get a Cole Porter revue, costumed, syncopated, gagged, and sexed up to the hilt. Ethel Merman and Bert Lahr perform in their best manner, with everything from the fake marble walls of a night-club men's room to the tufted satin of Louis XV's court as settings. Their special brand of humor seems even funnier when its spice is set off against the elegance of the French court...
...Prince consolidated his position, became one of Sweden's popular figures, and this priceless asset the House of Bernadotte de Ponte Corvo has skilfully conserved for more than 100 years under five bourgeois and uniformly popular kings: Karl XIV, his only son Oscar I, his eldest son Karl XV who left no male heir, and his brother Oscar II, father of the present Gustaf...
...live in London or New York City. The Swedes have devoted their whole toil and savings during this period to peace and social progress, eschewing the waste of war. As a child, Gustaf V was sent to a Stockholm private school and his then reigning uncle, King Karl XV, was engaged at this time in shepherding a gradual constitutional change, whereby effective political power in Sweden later passed safely from the Crown-which had enjoyed autocratic sway-into the hands of the elected Parliament and responsible Ministers...
...vainly fought to preserve Europe and the world. Before our eyes now passes a vision of mad horror and gloomy despair. ... In a tumultuous life, this race has known hours of agony and periods of apparent death, but it has also seen days of uplift and resurrection." Pope Benedict XV said of Belgium: "Nations do not die." Pope Pius XII said of Poland: "Poland, which does not intend to die." And although he urged Poles not to give way to despair, not to harbor rancor through hate, he added to an audience of Poles who had begun to weep...