Word: amide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shortly after dawn. Mahout Ali was found dead and Mahout Wee terribly beaten and unconscious, amid a jumble of smashed furniture and crockery. When arrested, Christian Mahout Wee maintained that the "Christian Devil" had taken vengeance upon himself and Mahout Ali for their impiety in permitting a Sacred Elephant to leave his native Burma...
...pitiable little scene passed almost unnoticed amid the triumph of MONDISM. Famed A. J. "Emperor" Cook, the fighting Laborite who precipitated the General Strike, rose and began to address the Congress with torrential passion, crying that trade unions exist not to cooperate with employers' associations but to wring concessions from them...
...Amid plaudits and huzzahs the Little Prince appeared upon a balcony, smiled down upon the sea of his father's Loyal Subjects...
...German Republic has no war office but instead a "Ministry of Defense." Therefore French pacifists find it intolerable that France still has a "Ministry of War." Last week the situation was finally deemed so grave that War Minister Paul Painlevé sped out to Bourg and there proposed amid pacifist plaudits that his war office shall be re-named the "Ministry of Peace...
...Amid scenes of the utmost violence and disorder, San Francisco policemen prevented performance of a play last week. The play was The Captive, by Edward Bourdet. Its performance was forbidden not because the play was bad but because it dealt with homosexuality...