Word: amide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Amid cries of "à bas Américains" from the audience, Mlle. Parisys burst into a song in untranslatable* argot, in which she voiced her determination to sell whatever she pleased without paying a sales...
...hours. At the end of that time the maxim, "Speech was given man to conceal his thoughts," had been well illustrated. Premier Bethlen obviously found it impossible to risk pinning the blame for the plot upon anybody-presumably because the guilty are all so extremely close to the Government. Amid repeated cries of "Resign! You are shielding forgers!" Count Bethlen proceeded merely to touch vaguely upon all the theories so far advanced to account for the crime, and wound up by stating that its "purely criminal aspects" must be left strictly in the hands of the courts, but that...
...next morning the Chamber assembled, after its recess, and amid thunderous applause re-elected M. Herriot its President. He received 300 votes out of a Chamber of 324. Nobody thought he could put his Cartel finance program through by any such majority; but M. Briand's prestige slumped. It was rumored that a Herriot-Caillaux Cabinet would replace the Briand-Doumer partnership, Doumer to vanish, Briand to return as Foreign Minister...
...Paul Painleve has twice been forced to resign as Premier of France since October (TIME, Nov. 9, 30). At present he is War Minister in the Cabinet of M. Briand, and spends his days amid the desperate vexations of trying to conduct the two most unpopular wars ever waged by France (those in Syria and in Morocco). Amid all these distractions he has kept up his hobby, "higher mathematics," and found time to spend hours in the laboratory of his son Jean, a quiet investigator in the field of comparative histology. Last week, by a trick of Fate...
...Amid an awful silence, the Fascist majority instantly passed the Premier's motion. The more circumspect Aventines, realizing what was going to follow in a moment, bolted from the Chamber. Those who did not immediately flee, were assaulted by the Fascist deputies, as soon as they finished voting. Many a lock of hair was literally torn from Aventine heads. Many a Fascist boot literally propelled Aventines through the wide portals of the Chamber and down the stairs...