Word: amide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago Racquet Club, donned a modish bathing garment, swam with vigor for ten minutes in the pool. Hastening to Gary, she viewed the mechanical operations of steel working from a glass-inclosed moving observation platform, but descended from it to stand beside the thrilling cascades of moulten metal. Amid the glare of the furnaces her regal and commanding presence was revealed at last in an approximately iridescent milieu...
Rain drizzled upon the great Saski Square at Warsaw, drenched a pitiful old sorrel mare which stood sopping amid a shouting throng. Astride the mare sat a big man in an old and faded uniform. The rain trickled from the drooping ends of his mustache. Now and then he soiled his white gloves by patting the mare's neck. Sometimes he bent down to whisper in her ear and she whinnied in reply...
...eighth anniversary of Marshal Pilsudski's return to Poland from the German prison in which he languished throughout the War; for he was captured amid the first skirmishes of the Legionnaires which he had raised in an effort to free Poland. As he sat last week on his "grand old mare" 30,000 Polish soldiers paraded in review before him. Poles, mindful of their debt to the always temperamental and often foolhardy Marshal, cheered him. From Ostrolenka, near Warsaw, there came an old, tottering Jew who presented Dictator Pilsudski with a handsome bouquet and declared that only since...
...Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary: "My penchant for a haughty monocle having been internationally remarked, I was welcomed to. Glasgow University last week by 5,000 students all be-monocled. Undismayed, I only 'screwed' my monocle the tighter into its eye socket, and was installed, amid acclaim as Lord Rector of Glasgow University. I am said to be one of the few Englishmen who can perform the 'impossible' feat of tossing my monocle into the air with thumb and finger and catching it again with my right eye socket...
...present the goal-post gladiators are resting amid a fetid odor of five-cent Havanas. The matches, the spitoons, and all the accessories for a nicotine festival are at hand. All that is needed is the shipment of Corona Belvederes...