Word: amide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Independent, Casper Harvey supplies a study of "Who's Who in America" from the geographical point of view. Amid a maze of ratios and figures, the fundamental formula for success stands out vividly, "Be born in Vermont and move to Massachusetts". That this recipe worked in the case of President Coolidge, regardless of the man's nature, is a sure proof of its reliability. Somewhere in the rocky soil of the Green Mountain state lies the secret of prominence as yet unexploited by realtors. Judicious advertising among eugenic-minded people might cause an emigration to Vermont. Using the Independent...
...Omaha the President appeared before the American Legion Convention. There were tremendous cheers. The band played Hail to the Chief, and Mrs. Coolidge was given a bouquet of roses by the Massachusetts delegation. Texas gave the President a ten-gallon hat, and he wore it for a few moments amid guffaws...
...London a first novel entitled The Madonna of the Barricades appeared in quantities on the display racks of booksellers. Semi-literates, attracted by the title, thumbed it just sufficiently to discover that its characters had been set amid the French Revolution of 1848. When they found no stimulating literary garbage interlarded as a bait for popularity, they laid the book aside...
...same spirit, he relentlessly governed the Canary Islands in the name of Spain, and was rewarded by being created the Marqués of Teneriffe. His immediate past has been spent very largely amid heated politico-military squabbles, which have enlivened his existence as a fashionable Spanish grandee...
...Latvia parliamentary elections took place amid an orgy of mudslinging, which indignant Latvian conservatives characterized as "almost typically American." Forty-six political parties put 600 candidates in the field. During a mad contest for the 100 vacant parliamentary seats, the art of calumnious oratory was carried to heights seldom or never attained before...