Word: amide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weary as well as the lovelorn, golf links, tennis courts, and bathing beaches for the thousands of Government workers. He blazes bridle paths through the cool woods, supervises the care of the flowers and cherry trees along the Potomac speedway, and provides the camp for summer tourists amid a setting of blooms and municipal gardens...
...seats, tiered like a grandstand, for the press. Above and over all, the unearthly white-green glare of mercury-vapor arcs. Conspicuous upon a red-draped raised platform, several uncouth persons in sweaters or shirt- sleeves, cranking unceasingly at cinema cameras. Such was the setting, dramatic and bizarre, amid which the famed Locarno Treaties* were signed at London last week...
...Amid an awkward pause, Dr. Luther and Herr Stresemann arose and quitted the gallery. A few minutes later Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain appeared and smoothed matters over as follows...
...press carried lacrimose editorials. Then correspondents cabled from Moscow that M. Stanislavsky was "working as usual" and by no means blind. The original report was traced to Morris Gest, subtle Manhattan showman, under whose banner Stanislavsky and the Moscow Art Theatre toured the U. S. amid fashionable acclaim two seasons ago. In its pristine form, the rumor had it that the great Director "was stricken while rehearsing . . . The Girl of the Golden West...
...borne him an heir (TIME, Oct. 26). One month ago it chronicled the "promotion" of handsome Chao Chom Suvadena to the rank of Queen, adding that a royal birth, the first in Siam for 32 years, was shortly expected (TIME, Nov. 16). Last week it deplored amid bitter lamentations a swift two-edged blow of fate...