Word: amide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Communists raised a tumult, called the Chancellor a "tax robber" amid wild cheers, boos, growls. Under threat of police intervention they cooled. Quiet was restored...
...accompanied by his secretary and two guardian Fascisti for safety, Deputy Giovanni Amendola left Montecatini for the nearby town of Pistoja amid a bombardment of sibilant Italian hisses. In the open country two automobiles barred the road. The Amendola car stopped, instantly the party was set upon by about 15 stalwart Fascisti and soundly clubbed. At Pistoja, a few minutes later, the Deputy was found to be suffering from shock, numerous contusions and some nasty cuts. Nothing dangerous developed and he was shipped back to his home in Rome...
...departed in 1924. Last year (TIME, July 28) the $26,000,000 Grain Marketing Co. was incorporated amid shouts of applause by professional rather than vocational "farmers." Now the Grain Marketing Co. has apparently in its turn reached the end of its tether, and faces dissolution...
...Lady Astor asked, amid cheers, that a committee of inquiry be set up for the purpose of repealing the law under which the police arrest women for soliciting. She observed that, if a man were charged with annoying women, evidence of the persons annoyed was required to effect his condign punishment...
Governor Healy, "squat and square as the first Napoleon," rose amid cheers to pay tribute to King George for the part he played in the Irish settlement...