Word: amide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...offer you at once welcome and bon vonaae. May favoring breezes and kindly seas make your homeward journey pleasant and may you always remember that, however difficult the public business upon which you have been engaged, you went out to your ship from the Lotus Club amid the cheers and good wishes of sincere and affectionate friends of France...
...Amid this excitement small notice was taken of Mafalda's brother, H. R. H. Umberto Nicola Tommaso Giovanni Maria, Prince of Piedmont and Heir Apparent to the Throne of Italy. Yet Umberto was active, meanwhile. He was creeping up to the age of 21. When he reached it, last week, he became automatically a Senator -the youngest* in Italy...
...Cafe Neant ("Nothingness"), Montmartre, Paris, a soul-sick traveler of life's rugged highway reclined beside a black coffin, gulped beer from a human skull. Amid their falsetto shrieks and groans, other travelers, pleasure-spent, raised skull-mugs to their fleshy lips, thwacked the coffin-lid, toyed with human bones?the femur, the tibia, the humerus. Waiters in the greasy black of undertakers made long faces, scurried about the skeleton hall, doing waiters' work. Maudlin antiquaries dilated upon the history of the ghoul-crooked relics...
With the General near, the Reichswehr goose-stepped, saluted, and were proudly inspected amid a furor of monarchist enthusiasm. Alas, as night fell and the General departed, the peasants of the region (Polish sympathizers) would offer the resplendent Reichswehr only pigpens as billets, withstood weary soldiers with pitchforks. Enraged, the authorities arrested hundreds of peasants and temporarily confiscated their property for military purposes...
Across the Polish border were being held other war games. Polish Uhlans, beholding the mistreatment of their sympathizers, "galloped up and down." Twelve of them galloped across into Germany. "Amid great excitement" they galloped back...