Word: amide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sooner had "Gaston" Caillaux sat down than numerous "Alfonses" sprang to their feet and hurled diverse protests. Amid wild confusion M. Leon Blum, fiery Socialist, bitter foe of Finance Minister Caillaux and Premier Briand, poured forth a tirade in which he tore M. Caillaux's proposals to tatters, pleaded for a direct levy on capital to save the franc and pay all debts, hurled awful warnings of "enslavement by foreign credits...
Startled Tribune readers scanned a two-column-wide editorial two columns long, which read in part: "Rudyard Kipling is dead. The herald of the right and might of empire lies silent amid the weald and the marsh and the down country of Sussex. England has lost the recorder of the glories that were hers in the day of conquest. The world has lost a singer." Amid the "weald" of Sussex, Mr. Kipling remained alive, did not sing...
North America. The most fruitful and fascinating digging on this continent has been conducted by five distinct expeditions, amid ruins of the antique (600 B. C.-1500 A. D.) Mayan civilization...
...established his personal headquarters last week upon an armored train near Peking. Chang, according to his wont, ensconced himself amid urban luxury. Barbarian that he is, he is said to treasure still a cheap Connecticut alarm clock, acquired in his youth under circumstances of good omen. Conferees Swelter. With the approach of Peking's blistering summer the delegates of the nine Washington Treaty Powers, assembled at Peking (TIME, Nov. 2), grew not unnaturally restive last week. The Chang-Wu-fostered Premier of China, Dr. W. W. Yen (TIME, May 10), resigned early in the week, abandoned the farce...
...story of Conkling, Platt, Garfield and James G. Blaine. But for the tangled interplay of their rapier politics Garfield would never have been President, nor would the name of Blaine awaken potent memories. Yet, instead of recalling to their readers the late and great, many an editor slapped down amid his scareheads a (faked) picture of Mrs. Brewster in her chemise. The facts are that old Roscoe Conkling had no issue. Gas Engineer-Violinist Conkling is the son of B. F. ("Dry Feet") Conkling, the engineer who abandoned the sinking General Slocum "without getting his feet wet," when she sank...