Word: amide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Messrs. Mencken and Nathan exchanged a bilious fish eye, carefully adjusted their elegant opera cloaks, gave a final pat to the knap of their ritzy beaver bats, donned their immaculate white capeskin gloves and stalked up the aisle amid envious glances...
...Canadian Parliament assembled last week at Ottawa, on Capitol Hill, amid highly extraordinary circumstances arising out of the recent "freak election" (TIME, Nov. 9), which gave the two major parties (Conservative and Liberal) an almost equal number of seats in the Canadian House of Commons...
Throngs of Japanese patriots surged excitedly about the great gates of the Imperial Akasaka Palace at Tokyo. Slowly the gates expanded, and amid much rat-tat-ting of drums the Imperial Mounted Guard prepared to ride forth, escorting the popular Prince Hirohito of Japan...
...Amid shouts of "Banzai!" "Hail, Illustrious One!" "Greetings!" the Prince Regent proceeded unruffled on his way. Later Ambassador Silva explained that he thought the first policeman had said "Come, please" instead of "Comes Prince." Since the policeman's gesture made his intent clear, this explanation was considered very lame.* The Japanese Government was rumored to have entered an official protest against the "unwarranted tempestuousness" of the Ambassador...
...film was taken off amid pandemonium and replaced by a U. S. feature picture...