Word: amide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Renown stopped at Kingston, Jamaica (British Colony) last week where the Duke tennissed and laid a cornerstone, and the Duchess reviewed Girl Guides. Together they attended the theatre amid an ovation. Thence the Renown steamed to Panama, where they were saluted by the Albion, yacht of Earl Fitzwilliam and the Four Winds, yacht of British Vice Admiral Sir Guy Gaunt, retired, who wanders eccentrically about the globe with a captain and crew who are Chinese...
Tangy whitecaps snickered and huge rollers boomed sea-mirth, last week, as H. M. S. Renown hove to off Las Palmas in the Canary Islands and the Duke and Duchess of York prepared to land amid a heavy sea in the frail royal motor barge...
...Circassian Beauty,' 'The Fire-eater,' 'Mysteria, The World's Greatest Fortune Teller'-regaled by guest- clowns who under their disguises were clever creatures like Ethel Barrymore, Ina Claire, Beatrice Lillie, Eva Gauthier, Ruth Draper. These five brought the apartment down amid cheers and confetti as 'The World's Greatest Equestriennes...
...temporal vulgarities-depicted with unblushing naturalism in the lower galleries-to ever higher religious concepts which are exampled by a symbolism progressively refined, as the worshiper toils upward. When the supreme dagoba is reached and entered a crude and only half-hewn statue of the Buddha greets the eye amid carvings of supreme delicacy. Thus is symbolized the axiom that the Buddha is of a perfection impossible for mortals to realize or portray...
...Silence!" roared Kemal Pasha, and the band stopped amid a hush. Then, loudly apostrophizing his officers, the Dictator-President cried...