Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Durant contest also included a special School Prize of $5,000, won by Malcolm D. Almack, Palo Alto high school student. To Hoover Townsboy Almack goes $1,000; to the high school $4,000. The Almack plan dealt chiefly with the necessity for educating the U. S. public to a fuller appreciation of the Prohibition law, its terms, its meaning, its sanctity...
...Abolished "gum shoe" squad-special police largely engaged in reporting on other police-exiled its head to duty in Long Island City...
...Friends: "We do not set anyone apart whose special duty it is to supply the spoken word in our meetings. . . . the experienced speaker should be watchful not to speak at undue length."-(The Book of Discipline.) The committee of overseers has the responsibility of insuring at each meeting the presence of some person of whose inner urge to vocal ministry it is reasonably sure...
Today the round face of the "German Lloyd George" is not ruddy with noontime beer and midnight champagne, but pale. He may eat only sparingly of dietetic food prepared by a special cook; and every evening he is bundled off to early bed by an efficient, uncompromising trained nurse. Recently it has even been noticed that Dr. Stresemann's personal physician is always closeted with him privily for five or ten minutes before he makes a public appearance or speech of any kind. Intimates of the House of Stresemann profess to know that the doctor spends these five-minute...
There was holly in the Rev. Mr. Holmes's church during Christmas week, and some special music on Sunday, but nothing in the way of a carol service. On Christmas Day, the church was dark...