Word: amide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little before six o'clock in the morning the S. S. President Harding steamed into Plymouth Harbor amid a downpour of rain which cloaked the fair hills of Devon in a pall of heavy mist...
...Assailant. After the shot, the people broke through the police cordons amid cries of "Lynch the shooter!" The would-be assassin stood petrified with fright; the angry crowd seized him and he was severely mauled before the police could rescue him. It was later discovered that he was Diasuke Namba, aged 27, son of a minor politician. Formerly a student of Waseda University, he had been forced by circumstances to work as a laborer and had become interested in Communism. He said he had no accomplices and that he had fired the shot in the hope of starting a social...
...Amid the considerable variety of strictly frivolous entertainment currently displayed, these stand among the leaders: Poppy, Music Box Revue, Wildflower, Topics of 1923, Ziegfeld Follies, Mr. Battling Buttler, Runnin Wild...
...noon on Dec. 6 official Washington flocked to the chamber of the House of Representatives to hear the President deliver his message to Congress. Nearly all the members of both Houses were present. The Cabinet marched down the aisle amid applause...
...Nash), tangles herself in trouble at the outset by marrying the idle offspring of the recent rich. Her claim to cosmic recognition at the time was moderate success as a soubrette in a second class London music hall. She is careless of Cockney accent but scrupulous of moral tone. Amid the exotic realities of Monte Carlo, her male acquisition develops desperate ennui and she departs in dis- consolate defiance...