Word: specializing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fourth Day. George VI was born on Dec. 14, 1895, but a special Canadian birthday celebration was scheduled for May 20. In Ottawa's Parliament Square, to the tune of Pomp and Circumstance, Canada staged for the first time in its history a Trooping of the Colour to celebrate the King's "birthday," a celebration conducted since the 17th Century in London by the Guards Regiments. In Canada the troops honored were brigades of Canadian Foot from Ottawa and Grenadiers from Montreal in blue trousers, red coats and great bearskins...
...French Concession special Chinese police, French Ahnamese soldiers even French sailors from warships in the Whangpoo River were mustered out. In the International Settlement the 4th U. S. Marines and bluejackets from the U. S. cruiser Augusta were under stand-by orders. The British ordered out their entire defense forces, landing both soldiers and sailors from warships. The Shanghai Volunteer Corps and the International Settlement Police were called out to the last man. To give the Japanese no excuse for penetrating the area, Settlement patrols also began a systematic search for terrorists arrested 150 Chinese, found no ammunition. Two Chinese...
...Hampshire farmer, in return for ten years of prosperity, sold his soul to the devil. To his wedding in 1841 come Secretary of State Daniel Webster (to kiss the bride) and the Devil (to have his due). Neighbor Webster, the great lawyer, defends Farmer Stone before a special jury of villains out of Hell and U. S. history, wins an acquittal by touching their memories of Freedom...
Thence, in his sedia gestatoria (portable chair) the Pope proceeded to the Basilica of St. John Lateran and the real business of the day. In a three-hour complicated ritual, he ascended and descended four Papal thrones, accepted two keys to the Lateran, gave his Cardinals special commemorative medals, laid an offering in a crimson velvet, gold-embroidered purse on the high altar. The long rite over, he appeared to the patient crowds on the balcony of the Basilica's portico. Mussolini's Italian guards struck up the papal hymn, the Pope's Palatine guards blared...
Last Sunday St. George's honored its most distinguished chorister with a special service of Negro spirituals. Headliner on the program was Harry Burleigh himself. Most of the spirituals were his own arrangements, including such famed items as Deep River, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, Go Down, Moses (in all, he has written some 150). St. George's was jammed. Outside, in tree-shaded Stuyvesant Square, big crowds listened in the warm spring sunshine as the voice of Harry Burleigh and St. George's choir rolled deeply from loudspeakers...