Word: amide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Speak for yourself, Thomas!" jangled Mr. Cook. Amid pandemoneum his measure was defeated...
With every chug the yacht drew nearer to the squat boulder from whose eminence New England society finds itself able to look down. And when the helmsman at last ran to earth Captain Adolphus' pin, the President and Mrs. Coolidge disembarked " amid many direct descendants of the original Pilgrims,"; who were swelled by unabashed plebeians into "an enthusiastic crowd...
Herr Loebe, President of the Reichstag, with 40 members of that body and 400 other sympathizers, arrived in Venna for a great demonstration in favor of union of Germany and Austria. They traveled down the Danube by ship amid ovations. Thence he will go to Paris to consult with former Premier Herriot on the proposal-most distasteful to the French who view with alarm a strong nation to the west of them. Thence he will go on to the U. S. to attend the International Parliamentary Congress at Washington...
Direction that was so obvious that it seemed at times burlesque blurred the virtues of the work. Fervent overacting also detracted. Ruth Nugent, quiet, direct, sometimes a little wistful amid the sub-Babbitt racket, mattered markedly. Altogether the piece is a doubtful value, and yet the first entertainment of the season for adult consideration...
...speedily mastering his painting, cannot refuse a salaried part in Mary, Queen o' Scots at the Princess Theatre. Other engagements follow and the young actor begins meeting the great stage folk of the day-Charles Calvert, Charles Kean, Samuel Phelps (who trains him), Madame Modjeska, Author Charles Read amid a sea of manuscript in his study, Miss Ellen Terry in her gray-blue drawing-room with ribbons of incense smoke wreathing the Venus of Milo...