Word: amide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...royal motor drew away amid, acclaim...
...after a time the Earl of Craven returned to his wife and was reconciled with her. The details of the story may be left to romancers and moralists. Last fall the Earl of Craven and his wife came to the U. S. and took up their residence with friends amid the fleshpots of Manhattan. The Countess Vera, pretty and petite, became an author, wrote three novels and a play, and also became engaged to a young English playwright, one Ralph Neale. Then, quite recently, Mr. Neale's fiancee decided to come to the U. S. to supervise the production...
...Lenine. Famed anti-Communist fire-eater, Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks (popularly known as "Jix") declared amid laughter, in answer to a question, that the widow of famed Bolshevist idol Lenine has applied for permission to end her days in England. Said the doughty "Jix," stiffly: "Such an application would be treated on its merits, if presented...
...this vanished amid the ensuing centuries of cutthroat European misgovernment, during which Spanish Catholicism was imported and constituted a serious drain upon the purses of the ungently "converted" Mexicans. The Spaniards were followed by equally unscruplous adventurers, many in foreign pay. With the decades, such Mexicans as retained a national consciousness acquired a bitter hatred and distrust of all foreigners. They also developed the unlovely characteristics of a people too long oppressed...
...that their fellow members understand as well as any merchants in the U. S. the meaning of that fine phrase, and the dry-goods men, as is their wont, responded heartily. Many were the delighted slaps and winks, the chewed cigars, the roguish stories passed from lip to lip amid shouts of, "Brother, you surely made a sale with that one" . . . "Let me tell you a red-hot one" . . . "Now down south they say" . . . "The one about the man with a harelip and the woman with St. Vitus' dance. . . ." It is true that among the 3,000 owners or executives...