Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Milton Fund was established under the will of the late W. F. Milton '58, as an incentive and aid to investigation and research. The specific purpose of the grants is "To help defray the expenses of any special investigation of a medical, geographical, historical, or scientific capture it, the interests of or for promoting, the physical and material welfare and prosperity of the human race: or to assist in the discovery and perfecting of any special means of alleviating or curing human disease, or to investigate and determine the value or importance of any discovery or invention...
...order to avoid crowding, the attendance has been limited to 900 people. Both Dining Rooms will be used between 11.40 o'clock and 1.20 o'clock for the Supper. Special tickets with the approximate time for dining stamped on them have been issued by the management in order to prevent confusion in the supper interval. These tickets are printed in groups for each 20 minutes during the two-hour period the Dining Rooms will be open...
Granville Dulse, graduate of the University of California in 1925, and last year special investigator for the street traffic survey in Chicago, as holder of one fellowship, is undertaking a nation wide study of the organization and function of police courts especially in connection with their handling of traffic problems...
...Saadat Ali Khan, Indian potentate: "I have just had built for me, in London, a special hunting motor car, camouflaged in green, brown and other jungle shades, to deceive lions and tigers. There is also a dazzle light to blind them. The car, which cost about $20,000, is of 50-horsepower, with special buffers, front and rear, to protect it from charges by wild animals. I have added an ice box, for drinks...
White Wings (1926). Not all have been successful, financially. But Mr. Barry is a success. Confidently, he holds definite opinions: he must have a year in which to write a play; Terence is his idea of a good playwright; he refuses to limit himself to one or two special themes; realism, "a slice of life," means nothing in the theatre. He detests being described as "whimsical." Yet that adjective better than any other, perhaps, describes the art that is making enthusiastic audiences smile and sigh these fall evenings at the Booth Theatre...