Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They thought that Miss Patterson and Lady Diana brought the greatest spirituality to the part, that Miss Tree had not quite their ethereal innocence together with the sense of warm, alert youth that is required. Miss Patterson, like her debutante predecessor, Miss Rosamond Pinchot of Manhattan, enjoyed a special triumph; and the story went the rounds again of how she had made her social debut last year on condition that her parents let her become an actress another year...
...Special Clauses. 1) After Sept., 1928, Italy may exercise the option of postponing the payment of that part of any half yearly installment which exceeds £1,000,000, for not more than two years. Until such postponed installments are paid up they will accumulate interest at 5%. 2) Beginning Sept., 1928, Great Britain agrees to return to Italy in half yearly installments the £22,000,000 deposit in gold bullion which was shipped from Rome to London during the War, as an earnest of Italy's fiscal good faith. At first the gold will be shipped back...
...great yellow curtain dropped on the first act of La Boheme at a special matinee given last week at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. A very special audience there for a special occasion burst into applause, prolonged it until the only performer left bowing on the stage was pretty, charming Mary Lewis, onetime Ziegfeld Follies girl, appearing for the first time at the Metropolitan as Mimi. Members of the special audience clapped their hands red. Many of them, stationed conveniently in the front of the orchestra in seats warmed these many years by long-nosed subscribers, reached underneath, pulled forth...
Mary Lewis was tired. So was the special audience, many of which, having regarded opera as a rather formidable sort of entertainment, had never ventured in before. Musicians in the orchestra, going home for supper before the evening performance, felt little fatigue, for they had been called upon for a very subdued performance so that the special audience would be sure to hear Mary Lewis...
...prophets. There has been no legendary "Arnold of Rugby" or "Sanderson of Oundle"* in the U. S. nor will there be. So many of our larger secondary schools were founded contemporaneously, and they soon multiplied so rapidly that though each school developed along its own lines, the special character of none had time to impress itself upon the public mind as a national institution before the coming of the public high school system, which relegated private education to a special, a subordinate place in the democracy's pedagogical program. It is most improbable that the appointment of a new headmaster...