Word: amide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next morning the state funeral procession brought the body to Westminster Abbey, amid the booming of minute guns and the strains of Handel's dead march from "Saul," which changed to Chopin's funeral march as the Abbey was reached. The coffin was again borne on the gun carriage, draped with the Queen Mother's royal standard. But this time detachments of the Royal Air Force, the Life Guards, the Horse Guards and the Royal Marines took the place of the lone cavalry officer of the. day before...
Within the Abbey, the Queens of England, Norway and Spain were waiting together with an innumerable assembly of the nobility of Europe, and such English civil dignitaries as Premier Baldwin and his Cabinet. The U. S. Ambassador and Mrs. Houghton were present amid a brilliant assembly of the various diplomatic corps...
...Amid so much pomp it was recalled that Baron von Richthofen had ever been a scorner of the conventional mediocrities of mankind. When he was shot down at last, he was found wearing a flaming suit of silk pajamas under his aviator's uniform. Said mourners: "His pajamas and his famous blood-red battle plane were typical of the man-a flaunting, brave, exuberant war eagle. His like has not often been seen...
...Camera warmed to its work with the presentation to Il Benito, amid stentorian cheers, of a sheaf of laurel-a token of the Deputies' relief at his escape from assassination (TIME...
Twitching impatiently at a laurel twig, the Premier suffered himself to be congratulated for a few moments. Then the twig snapped; Il Ditce's eyes became luminous in their pale sockets. Striding to the rostrum amid ringing cheers, Mussolini performed the Fascist salute, extending his right arm forward and upward in the gesture of the Caesars...