Word: amide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, however, the suave and efficient Sir Eric* received tidings which foreshadowed a modicum of English recreation amid the Swiss calm of Geneva. From Viscount Cecil of Chelwood came a crisp cheque for ?1000, with the suggestion that ?500 be allotted for tennis courts at the disposal of the League Secretariat, and that the rest be used to extend the Geneva Golf Club's course and to assist impecunious undersecretaries to join the club. Viscount Cecil added that the ?1000 represented part of the $25,000 peace prize awarded to him by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation two years...
...Amid such speculatory prognostications Chancellor Luther prepared two bills for immediate submission to the Reichstag. One would authorize the Reich Government to sign the Pacts at London on Dec. 1, 1925. The other would sanction the entrance of Germany into the League of Nations, as is specifically provided in the Pacts before they can become operative (TIME, Oct. 26, INTERNATIONAL...
...their right hands and have them counted. Two hundred and ninety-four sweating palms were for M. Painlevé. Two hundred and fifty more or less clenched fists were against him. Once more the Radicals and Socialists had held together sufficiently to allow the Government to continue in office. Amid cheers and imprecations the debate upon the articles of the new scheme in detail got under way and threatened to continue...
Later in the week the President paid an official visit to Karlsruhe and was greeted by high dignitaries of the Baden Government, including Premier Hellpach. Amid cheering throngs von Hindenburg was whisked by motor to a state luncheon. Rising to acknowledge a toast, he recalled to his hearers "those happy years which I spent as a division commander with headquarters at Karlsruhe...
...Tarascon, France, one Mile. Eugenie Dupont, alleged demimondaine, poured a litre of benzine over a parrot belonging to one of her rivals, and set fire to the bird. Amid a chorus of squawks and shrieks, the parrot flapped phoenix-like into the next room, igniting certain garments belonging to one M. La Rupelle. Doused with champagne, the fire was extinguished...