Word: amide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Kevin O'Higgins was one of those who formed the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State in 1921. "We were simply eight young men," he has said, "standing amid the ruins of one administration, with the foundations of an-other not yet laid, and with wild men screaming through the key-hole...
During the Shogunate (1603-1867), while the Emperor's powers were subordinate to those of the Shoguns or Tycoons ("Great Princes"), the Eta touched bottom, groveled at the level of animals. Then the Restorer, the conquering and enlightened Emperor Meiji (1853-1912) recovered the Imperial Power; and, amid numerous reforms, raised the Eta to full status as ordinary citizens...
Next morning Colonial Secretary Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery announced to the House of Commons amid cries of "Hear! Hear!" that the bill will not be introduced in anything like its proposed form. Members of Parliament promptly dubbed it "dead...
...Export Ale." Mr. Healy and friends disposed themselves on antique gilt chairs in the Lihme dining-room and gnawed the ham without benefit of cutlery. When ale had washed down ham, one of them flung the ham bone through the glass panel of the pantry door. The bone lodged amid the china on a pantry shelf and Mr. Healy, feeling exceedingly "good," started jumping up and down in the dining-room, swinging his arms, shouting drunkenly...
...upright father even decided in favor of naughty Paris. He had faith in his son. Never was faith better placed. Under Carolus Duran, dutiful young John Sargent so "persevered in the Pine Arts" that he had no time for Parisian gaiety. In a negligee Bohemia his dress remained correct. Amid fads and fashions ornate, voluptuous, bizarre, he followed only Frans Hals and Velasquez. He learned, thoroughly, to build on true middle values, to accent with strictest simplicity...