Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Leicester, Lord Colebrook, Lady Northcote, Premier and Mrs. Baldwin and Foreign Secretary and Mrs. Chamberlain. Among the Americans present were Ambassador Herrick, Mr. and Mrs. S. Parker Gilbert, Cora, Countess of Strafford, Lady Astor, Frederick Sterling, Counsellor of the U. S. Embassy; Ray Atherton, First Secretary; Boylston A. Deal, special attache. The men were dressed in court costume, the ladies in expensive gowns. The banquet over, the King and the other gentlemen stayed to crack the usual jokes and discuss the usual topics over their port and nuts. The King, said to be particularly struck with the youthful appearance...
Silence reigned and yet gave way to greater silence as M. Henri Robert called the 23-year-old defendant to testify. She was not put into the prisoner's dock, but sat on a special seat in the centre of the court room. She stood up, a slim, neat figure dressed in black from hat to shoes, her delicate, pretty, pale face appearing as fine chalk contrasted with charcoal. Under a searching cross-examination in a sympathetically inclined court where men and women sat silent with tears streaming from their eyes, she told her story: She and the young author...
...easier to order Raisuli's removal than to accomplish it, however. No mule and no prancing Arab steed could be found strong enough to support his grotesque corpulence and a special litter had to be constructed to bear his great weight. A strange cavalcade left Tazreut. First, marched 20 fierce Riffian guards, armed hip and thigh. Second, came a huge, ill-fashioned sedan chair, supported at each corner by a pole and carried by 16 husky men. Inside the sedan box was Raisuli, reclining on soft carpets and magnificent cushions. Over his paunchy, shapeless face he wore a turban...
...knew that the amounts were being paid in 1923 and accused them of seeking to cloud over the Barmat scandal (see under) in which they are hopelessly implicated. Moreover, it was declared that the Government was entitled to make these payments without reference to the Reichstag by virtue of special emergency legislation...
...Bother Mother. Rather a good title, this. Rather a good cast, too, was assembled. Decidedly a terrible show, the audience thought. In plot, it was one of those domestic comedies. The appearance was for special matinees. The idea was to establish it in an evening theatre if it made...