Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been failing in health, has suffered a severe heart attack"; and at once King George and Queen Mary hastened to her bedside, at Sandringham, in Norfolk. Already there were George's three sisters, Louise, the Princess Royal; the Princess Victoria; and Queen Maud of Norway. At London a special train waited, with steam up, ready at an instant's notice to speed the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York toward Sandringham, should their grandmother be declared upon the point of death...
Suddenly an urgent message flashed from Sandringham. A powerful limousine darted from the Prince's residence to the railway station. Out over a cleared track roared the special train?too late! Four minutes before it reached Wolferton, the local station adjacent to Sandringham, the Queen Mother breathed her last...
Last week his remains were disinterred and transferred to Berlin aboard a special train. There the body rested in state at Grace Church, inclosed in a simple walnut coffin, and was visited by thousands of Berliners, who filed reverently past "The Flying Siegfried...
...Offense. An English importation was put on for special matinees with Dennis Neilson-Terry and Mary Glynne in the leads. They are the London players brought over for the exceedingly short lived The Crooked Friday. In the new play they appear to be better performers; it helps them a good deal by being pretty steadily interesting in itself...
Tomorrow morning at 8.45 o'clock the Reverend Dr. Frothingham will conduct a special service in commemoration of John Harvard's birthday. Tomorrow will be the three hundred and eighteenth anniversary of the birth of the University's founder. Tomorrow's services will be open to the public...