Word: amide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Great Britain and the United States henceforth are not to compete in armament as political opponents, but to cooperate as friends in the reduction of it. -HERBERT HOOVER. When Calvin Coolidge quit the White House amid U. S. plaudits he left many a Briton sorely vexed and honestly uneasy lest the U. S. and the Empire might soon "compete in armament as political oppo-nents." Of course no one feared actual War. But the Coolidge Naval Limitation Conference had broken down (TIME, Aug. 15, 1927); and Congress had passed what the British press called a Big Navy bill (TIME...
...Amid the typical, frantic French cheering which followed. M. Franklin-Bouillion conceded himself routed. "I withdraw!" he shouted, enthusiastic even in repentance, "Cher M. Briand, I withdraw my motion...
...audience grew impatient. Children squirmed and complained. Suddenly the building emitted jets and twists of flame, illumined the landscape. The effect was uncannily real. The crowd cheered and applauded. In an upper window the mock bride and groom looked funny as they gesticulated for help. The crowd roared heartily. Amid soaring flames, the clownish occupants of the building cut excited, silly capers. When the searchlight operator turned his beam on the blazing roof, he revealed what looked like a charred corpse. Nervous, delighted, the crowd's amusement increased...
Count Laszlo Szechenyi, the Hungarian Minister, took his wife, who was fashionable Miss Gladys Vanderbilt, to Newport, R. I., and there, amid surroundings thoroughly familiar to her, established his little diplomatic court. A veteran diplomat, he well knows the impossibility of escaping Washington's torridity in Washington...
...quatrain spelled a four-letter word. The first two words were the same, an unprintable obscenity. The last two words were a compound, specific form of the first, even more unprintable. All four words formed an obscene ejaculation evidently aimed at the lofty sentiments expressed in all college hymns. Amid guffaws from like-minded undergraduates and painful embarrassment for decent Harvardmen, Author Fitzhugh was expelled. Said he: "I guess I never did grow up." At the office of the Boston Herald, copies of the paper containing the poem sold...