Word: amide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed and sent to the Senate a bill creating a foreign service in the Department of Agriculture. ¶ Passed amid cheers and sent to the Senate the $274,000,000 Navy-building bill, authorizing 15 cruisers and one aircraft carrier, construction to be suspended by the President in case of an international disarmament conference, which he was urged to urge...
...Amid this doubtful embroglio Brigadier General Logan Feland, commanding the 1,200 U. S. Marines in Nicaragua, issued a general exhortation to "untiring exertion" by Marines during "the next two months," because after that the rainy season will set in and thereafter it would admittedly be impossible to subdue the forces of General Augusto Calderon Sandino, hardy guerilla & patriot, now indomitably in arms against U. S. intervention...
...Slowly, reverently all that remained of Monarch Sisowath was borne to the top of the pyre and there set down. In life he had been an amiable if do-nothing puppet of France. His pleasures were slumber, meditation and degustation. Fittingly and honorably he was borne away to Buddha, amid the swelling and sizzling of mercury, and the sweet stench of aromatics...
...glut. Whole families were tortured until they told the whereabouts of valuables and gold. Dirty thumbs with ragged nails gouged out the eyes of stubborn misers or those who really had no gold. Finally surviving citizens of Leiyang were herded and penned into buildings which were lighted and burned amid awful outcries. The heathen, glutted to repletion, spread their grins and carried off their loot. Supplementary despatches confirmed that those burned & butchered numbered approximately...
Miss Bell. Very natural and to be expected is the discovery that Miss Bell, who labored so long amid aboriginal peoples, did not advocate their ruthless repression,* as did the Queen. For one thing, Gertrude Bell's whole life was led in perfect intellectual freedom and with few curbs upon her remarkable physique. After taking a brilliant First at Oxford she was for a time coquette enough to refuse to ride alone, one evening, with a young man in a hansom cab; but not long thereafter her loves became Persia and Palestine and the wild crags of the Swiss...