Word: amide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afraid that France would renew her original intention (TIME, Dec. 21) of trying to make the conference consider every possible form of "invisible armament" (peacetime industries capable of being turned to war purposes, etc.) and so make the scope of the conference so broad that it would wallow hopelessly amid a maze of insoluble questions...
...ueber Alles!" they chanted, and then joined in the old hymn "Grosser Gott, wir loben Dich." Lifting their hands they took an oath to German unity proposed by Herr Adenauer, Ober-Burgomaster of Cologne. From President von Hindenburg at Berlin came a message which the Herr Ober-Burgomaster read amid acclaim: "At midnight the hour of freedom strikes for the first zone of the Rhineland. . . . May the day of freedom soon dawn over the whole occupied territory!"* Where...
While even the occupants of the royal box appeared to incline a willing ear, and the public galleries seethed amid a pandemonium of approval, Premier Mussolini spoke with a venomous suppressed fury as follows: "Let pan-Germans remember that Italy is ready, if necessary, to carry her banners beyond her present frontiers but back? never! . . . The German anti-Italian agitation is nefarious and ridiculous. I call it nefarious because it is based upon a tissue of lies which the Germans themselves know to be lies. I call it ridiculous because the Germans have thought to frighten our young proud Fascist...
Wild cheering ensued. An actor in horn-rimmed glasses and huge trousers, "an American," rushed upon the stage from the audience and hinted that there might be still other ways in which "the honest girls of France" could liquidate the national debt. Mlle. Parisys slapped him in the face, amid pandemonium...
...through the Locarno Pacts. He declared positively that the Cabinet would hasten the entrance of Germany into the League, and announced his intention of calling for a vote of confidence on the morrow: "The Government will not attempt to carry on by backstairs tactics or shillyshallying." The session closed amid a Luther motion from the Centre...