Word: amide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Peacemaking paused while the Allied statesmen turned to watch an embarrassed artist of international reputation subside into his seat. A few rows back of him a flushed Emporia, Kans., editor?of similar reputation? likewise dropped down into his seat, amid audible whispers of 'Good for you, Bill White...
...Amid all the gloomy smoke and fire which the Teapot Dome Scandal has spread over the national Congress, it must be refreshing to have there the naivete of a Magnus Johnson. Although the reports of his milking contests have of late simmered into quietude, the Senator from Minnesota has by no means yet emptied his bag of tricks. The latest is an excursion to the Senate press gallery to challenge a home-state newspaper correspondant to a verbal duel. If all Minnesota citizens are as frank and as earnest as their radical senator, the roof of the Capital Building would...
...merged into another it became increasingly certain that the Labor Party would be sustained in moving an amendment on the Address from the Throne.* Amid the riot of British parliamentary news four facts stood out clearly. First, Ramsay Macdonald, the Labor leader, in delivering himself of a stinging criticism on the King's speech, declared that his Party lacked confidence in His Majesty's Government, and that it would restore British influence in Europe for humane ends. Second, ex-Premier H. H. Asquith pledged his aid and the aid of the Liberal Party in putting the Labor Party...
...piece de resistance for the critics was Bellows' Crucifixion. There, set amid violent lights and shadows, with "portentous storm clouds swirling over Calvary," a gaunt, muscular, physical Christ depends from the cross. The sweet Christ, the mild Christ, the frail Christ are not there. He is a tremendous peasant fellow. His muscles bulge. His members are large, cumbrous, powerful, those of a toiler, of a great struggler. On his face are the passing marks of the death agony, the last contortions of pain passing in the peace of unconsciousness...
...young Irish heroine starts as a poor newsgirl under the Brooklyn Bridge. She ends up wife and heir to the Morgan millions. This simple tale is unfolded amid a frenzy of dancing, rather unimpressive music, vast displays of color and a sprinkling of humor. Thousands of the public flocked to Little Nellie Kelly; the same thousands will doubtless jam the benches of the Liberty Theatre to enjoy the upward curve of Rosie's fortune...