Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...SPECIAL DELIVERY...
...President Coolidge granted a second year's leave of absence to Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler, Public Safety Police Commissioner in Philadelphia. What with bootleggers and politicians General Butler has been having a "hot time," and Mr. Coolidge, after consideration, although not in general approving of such special leaves, decided to give Philadelphia the privilege of hiring the General for just one year more. He took occasion to point out that the Federal Government is not responsible for General Butler's acts as a city official while on leave...
...woman forester of Amawalk, N. Y., dug up a 35-ft. spruce from her nurseries and shipped it by special car to the White House?thereby furnishing the President with a living Christmas tree "as an example to the country that it is better to keep potted living trees than slaughter 5,000,000 young pines every year for Christmas...
...alert special policeman, deputed to guard the Embassy, became suspicious. He asked her several questions in Italian, in which language the woman answered. She was waiting, she said, to see the Ambassador leave the Embassy and inquired when he was likely to come out. But this naive bantering did not disarm the bobby ; he seized her arms and made the discovery that up her sleeve, tight in her right hand, was a loaded revolver...
Candida. Some critics felt a strange uncertainty in setting out to inspect the early craftsmanship of Shaw. Had he become old fashioned, his early ideas antiquated in the burst of bright new brainstorms which his very ideas had incited? The curtain went up on the first special matinee of Candida, disclosed Katherine Cornell in the title role, Pedro de Cordoba, Clare Eames, Richard Bird and Ernest Cossart in her support; went down on one of the few notable productions of the season. Shaw's ideas in the play were familiar. But Shaw knew his people must not be simply...