Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expectation of being the first posthumous biography. With the King's recovery, proof sheets of the volume were forwarded to Buckingham Palace for approval last week. Officials, horrified at the revelation of personal details in the King's private life, not only forbade its publication but sent special King's messengers to the publishers to suppress...
Into the Papal throne room filed 3,000 Frascati pilgrims in unaccustomed dress suits, black vests, white gloves. Each pilgrim grasped firmly by the neck a bottle of amber Frascati wine. One by one the 3,000 pilgrims filed past the Pope to receive a special apostolic blessing and then filed out. Left on long tables, 3,000 bottles stood against the wall...
Soon the Cabinet officers convened at the palace. Troops and police in new, bright uniforms were ranged outdoors. The populace crowded the sidewalks. Flags of Cuba and of those two score nations which had sent special envoys to the Inaugural, fluttered everywhere. Cuba always has a breeze blowing. It makes Cuba more comfortable all the year round than is any U. S. city during the U. S. summer...
Because no patents are obtainable, Packard is guarding its new product until it can get into production and thus "get the jump" on the rest of the industry. To that end the company has already started a special 300,000 sq. ft. factory and scheduled future production. And in anticipation of new profits Packard motor car stock last week began ascending...
...minister watched 2,000 trained nurses march up the aisle and take their rustling seats. Many a nurse wore the Red Cross uniform of crisp white dress and redlined blue cape. It indicated both that she had been graduated from a high school and that she had taken special courses in war nursing. Most of those at the Cathedral had served in the World War, a few in the Spanish-American...