Word: amide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tight trousers and tall hats?the curiously attractive garb of a century ago. Patricia O'Day comes to Manhattan from Ireland. En voyage she is forced to discard female finery and gear herself out in the clothing of a boy. The rest of her adventures transpire amid the rarefied air of high society and the heavier atmosphere of the lowest stratum during the days when the city structures had not begun to scrape...
...clock to write a letter to his wife. Most of the crew of 328 and the 36 officers were already asleep. He finished his letter and was sealing it when a great explosion shook the ship and she immediately began to list. The Captain rushed to the deck and amid the confusion issued orders to post sentries to repel boarders. There were no boarders, but the forward magazines had exploded and the Maine quickly sank in the waters of the harbor, carrying with her 262 men and two officers...
...year ago but five of the original group assembled, including in their number Adam Marty. This year 34 places were set as usual, shining with bright silver and glassware. In the center of the table, amid the decorations, rested the consecrated bottle. Thirty chairs were draped with black, among them Adam Marty's. One survivor was too decrepit to make the journey from his Florida home. But three men dined where once the 34 had supped. Too soon will the bottle's cork be pulled...
...party approached by way of the Panhandle. At Wrangell, in the Panhandle, once a trading post of the Hudson Bay Co., the party was greeted by " thousands of people." The populace presented Mr. and Mrs. Harding with a basket of super-strawberries and a bunch of mammoth peonies. Here, amid totum poles and other emblems of the red men, the President declared that he had come as an " apostle of understanding. That is what the world and the nation most need." Following him the three Secretaries in the party, Work, Wallace and Hoover, also spoke...
...against a proposed invitation to U. S. Rotary Clubs to hold a convention in Mexico City next year. He said that "silk-hatted, frock-coated Rotarian Fascisti from the United States were no less enemies of a socialistic revolutionary nation than the black-shirted Italians." The protest was carried amid roars of applause. The labor unions are determined to uphold their viewpoint-with a general strike if necessary...