Word: amide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Saito Keynotes. When newsgatherers were called into the presence of Viscount Saito, they found him amid the homage and the state which befits a man who has recently received the personal mandate of "The Son Of Heaven," the sublime Tenno (Emperor) Hirohito of Japan. Moreover Admiral Saito is now Governor-General of Korea-a post of almost vice-regal dignity. This very rich, potent and shrewd old man read a statement keynoting on two vital points...
...ancient maxim, Speak nothing about the Dead except good, was never more flatly disregarded than last week, in Paris, when M. Paul Valery, poet of severe Classicism, was received by the French Academy, amid pomp, and took the seat once occupied by that late famed trifler with life and words, M. Anatole France...
Suchowfu, 400 miles from Peking, was the auspicious scene upon which this alliance was struck up. Came the Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, Oct. 4) whose armies, originally one with the Hankow "Communist" forces, have now conquered the Southern half of China. Then, amid cheers and bugle blasts, came the great Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang-an abundant fellow, massive, barrel-sized, jowled like a tiger, and last week unshaven, scowling, imperious in the pride of his new power...
This small passenger sat with tight shut eyes as Major di Bernardi gave his ship the "gun," sent it roaring down the field, pulled back his joy stick, took off in a flashing swoop. Then, amid the calm speed of upper air strata, the eyes of passenger Vittorio Mussolini, 11, son of II Duce, opened. Regaining his composure he, later, peeped and peered over the edge of his cockpit, at Italia, far below...
George Buchanan, M. P. (prominent Laborite) : "Oh, what a lie!" Mr. Locker-Lampson (answering amid hubbub a Conservative question as to how relations with Rus sia may be resumed) : "The initiative should come from the Soviet Government, whose hostile activities compelled the British Government to suspend diplomatic relations. The Soviet Government know well that if they come forward with constructive proposals we shall be glad to consider them, but first they must abstain from propa ganda against this country." In addition to this sharp exchange in the Commons, excitement was manifest in British Communist circles last week when the Foreign...