Word: amide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bullet. Amid delirious cheering, Signor Mussolini quitted the Capitol and strode toward his automobile. In the general excitement no one noticed a wild-eyed white-haired Irishwoman who sprang up beside the Premier's motor and thrust a small object at him with both hands. Her gesture was not that of a woman pointing a revolver. II Duce, intent upon his thoughts, did not notice the blue steel muzzle trained upon his temple. As a band struck up the Fascist hymn, "Giovinezza," he threw back his head and fixed his eyes on a staff flying the Italian flag. The bullet...
...Fiumicino, a seaport near Rome, he boarded the dreadnaught Conte di Cavour amid an ovation scarcely to be described. As the ship's crew cheered him from the rigging and from every other possible vantage point, he commanded silence with a gesture and proceeded to "introduce" the provincial Fascist secretaries to their directorate...
Imperial Welcome. With the tip of his nose brown with iodine but unbandaged, Signer Mussolini landed at Tripoli amid a salute of 19 guns, an honor previously reserved for princes of the blood. Mounted on a charger, he reviewed for over an hour a military procession in which walked and rode native warriors in every sort of brilliant and picturesque attire together with every device for military transport, from Arabian dromedaries to Italian tanks...
...Drowsily, the Speaker ruled: "It is, provided that they sleep sufficiently quietly." Amid the ensuing guffaw many a slumberer was rudely awakened. At last, after 18 hours of debate, with 257 members still present, a temporary adjournment was moved and carried by a show of hands as the members stretched, yawned. The economy bill continued pending...
...tall Briton, whose air of habitual command betrayed his lineage, arrived last week at Bombay, India. Some weeks before he had taken leave of the King-Emperor at London, had left that monarch to endure his well known bronchial affliction amid the damp of England. At Bombay, the arriving Briton took the oath of allegiance as Viceroy of India, then he prepared to whirl inland to Delhi, the Imperial Capital. At Delhi, where the new Imperial city is rapidly being transformed by British architects into an earthly paradise, the stalwart Englishman will shortly begin to reign "in the name...