Word: amide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Members of the Toronto Camera Club harkened humbly, last week, to a visiting and lecturing maestro: Richard Neville Speaight Esq. of London, semi-official photographer to the Court of St. James's. "On one occasion," confided Maestro Speaight amid a hush, "I was obliged to pace the floor for two hours with an infant son* of Princess Mary in my arms before the child stopped crying and enabled me to make a satisfactory portrait...
Last week the Imperial Household Ministry let fall, provisionally, words and dates significant to the smart. On Nov. 3, 1928, the Tenno will depart amid pomp from Tokyo, and arrive next day at the ancient capital of Kyoto. There he will be crowned on Nov. 7, and will pass the subsequent week in "Sacred Rituals and Banquets...
...frank, alert and quizzical air is characteristic of the young U. S. Minister to China, John Van Antwerp MacMurray. Last week he entered Peking amid circumstances sufficiently triumphal to have made a lesser diplomat turn smug. During the past month he has been "down South" in Shanghai, negotiating with the Nanking Nationalist Government a settlement of the claims of U. S. citizens arising out of the "Nanking Outrage" of last year (TIME, April 4), when much U. S. property was looted by Chinese and one U. S. citizen killed. That Minister MacMurray had successfully concluded these negotiations became known recently...
...Commission had assembled amid acute embarrassment. It found itself forced to consider, at last, the breath-taking proposal for "immediate and complete disarmament ... of all nations" which was challengingly submitted to the League, some months ago, by Soviet Russia (TIME...
...outset of the Great War, amid the desoluation and gloom, one belief shone through the murkiness. It was that after such a world-involving calamity lasting peace must ensue. When the war ended, statesmen enthusiastically took up their task making certain that peace. But politics and petty jealousy overcame their ardor until there could be no absolute surety that such a catastrophe might not reoccur...