Word: amide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the war the tercentenary of the death of the great Spanish poet, novelist and playwright took place amid great splendor and national homage...
...York Times: "There is no reason why Stella Dallas should not place Mrs. Prouty immediately amid such writers as Zona Gale and Willa Cather...
King George and Queen Mary arrived in Rome and were greeted at the station by King Victor Emanuel and his Queen amid the acclamations and vivas of the Romans...
...royal wedding of the Duke of York was a dazzling affair, but even the pageantry of that occasion could not obscure the Prince of Wales. He stood out in the news stories amid organdie, crowns, and bishops' robes, impeccably but jauntily dressed, twirling a cane. He maintained an amused nonchalance despite the fact that one more "possibility" was walking down the aisle as an engaged bridesmaid...
...This Is London by the cult of young critics, these plays are running merrily on to a full year of performances. In spite of the efforts of The Dial and Vanity Fair aesthetes to " put over " T. S. Eliot as the greatest modern American poet, his vogue is vanishing amid an incessant attack and counterblast of the younger literati themselves. The authors of The Forty-Niners (recent dramatic fiasco) eat lunch four times a week with the young critics, but they did not save Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Marc Connolly, and Ring Lardner from a sound critical lashing. Heywood Broun...