Word: amide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newspapers devoted much attention to the incident or explored its sociological implications. But Bernarr Macfadden's horror-loving New York Evening Graphic sent a man out to pose and photograph the Widow Kolesar lamenting in a cornfield. The photograph was published under the caption: She stood in tears amid the alien corn...
Studying electricity did not prevent Steinmetz from craving companionship. He joined two student societies, the first a mathematical one where he was amid songs and beer dubbed Proteus, ever-changing old man of the sea. The second was the Breslau Student Socialist Society, of which he soon became chairman. Finding one night, that the police were on his trail for editing a radical weekly, he left for Switzerland, radical retreat, then for New York via steerage where he was admitted past the Statue of Liberty after some demur over his appearance. Living with a friend in Brooklyn, he found work...
Last week the Welsh Royal National Eisteddfod was held amid the bowers of Sefton Park in smoky Liverpool, most populous with Welshmen (75,000) of any city save London. From all over the world went humming Welshmen, chiefly of course from the mine-scarred valleys of Wales. There were more than 500 from the U. S., including the famed Anthracite Choral Society of 172 mixed voices from Scranton, Pa. Two girls went all the way from California with their grandmother, aged 74. Others journeyed from Australia. They were welcomed by their most distinguished countryman, David Lloyd George. Then rose...
...Last week Caradoc Prichard, 23, Cardiff journalist, established a record by winning for the third consecutive year. The Archdruid, robed in white with a golden breastplate, commanded the people to rise and sing Hen Whad Fy Nhadau. In purple raiment, Bard Prichard walked to the presidential chair, seated himself amid a circle of white-clad druids, poets in azure, orators in green. A golden diadem was placed upon his head. Above him the Archdruid raised a glittering sword. "Is there peace?" he asked. "Peace," was the thunderous old answer...
Alain Gerbault, French sportsman, arrived on his 30-foot sloop Firecrest in Le Havre amid whistles and cheers after a six-year cruise alone around the world. He learned that the French Government had made him an officer in the Legion of Honor. Voyager Gerbault immediately went to Paris to see the Davis Cup matches (see p. 56). Present there was Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen, now a tennis professional, whose refusal to marry M. Gerbault is supposed to have driven him off on his travels. Last week M. Gerbault said: "I think I shall stay ashore for a while now." When...