Word: amide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard. Entering the Government Service amid days of emergency, he was later sent to Buenos Aires; and from there he originated the present system of monthly cable letters on economic conditions which now pour into Washington from U. S. Consuls everywhere...
Driving through the beautiful country that Dickens so liked, the Pickwick passengers will terminate their tour at The Weld, the Anderson estate in Brookline. Here amid great natural beauty, the picnic in "Pickwick" will be duplicated in the open air theatre on the spacious grounds. Assembled to watch this scene will be many members of the Harvard faculty and the entire membership of the Boston Dickens' Fellowship. Here, old friends like Tony and Sam Weller, the charming, Wardle family, Joe the fat Boy and others in the immortal galaxy will saunter about the grounds as through on the English countryside...
...Amid green meadows, but perched atop a small plateau lies the Capital City of Luxembourg, seat of that pastoral realm, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, which dozes complacently between Belgium and Germany, populated by 200,000 sturdy folk of such mixed Teuto-Latin strain that they remind one of that fabulous being, the "typical American."* Thither, to the City and State of Luxembourg, there came last week the Archduke Otto of Habsburg, 15, claimant to the Hungarian throne (TIME, Jan. 24). With him arrived his mother, Zita, one-time Hungarian Queen and Austrian Empress. They came from the little fishing...
Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut, big-boned Yankee, father of seven sons, one of whom is now studying Chinese in Peking, arrived at that city last week, and was entertained by the great Chang Tso-lin, War Lord of Manchuria and North China, amid peculiarly harrowing circumstances...
...Author is Humorist Irvin Cobb's only daughter. Her looks are from her pretty mother's side. About as big as a minute?an exciting minute?she took to writing when other girls her age were seeing how their hair looked "up." The pleasant New York landscape (near Ossining) amid which she spent her 'teens is distinguished also by the estate of Publisher George A. Doran...