Word: amide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Donahey of Ohio. The Governor, noted for his interest in prison reform, wished to find out about prison conditions for women. A friend charged Mrs. Huck with stealing his overcoat. She pleaded guilty, was sentenced to six months in jail. She spent three days in the Cleveland jail amid bummers, dope users and bad food (according to her account); then was sent with a Negress bootlegger to the prison at Marysville. There she lived with female murderers and thieves, found them kindly and conditions, on the whole, satisfactory. At the end of a month, the Governor pardoned...
...overpowering heat. The Queen stuck it for some time, but when tall Jack Hennessey of Indianapolis began his virile serving, she attempted to scoot unnoticed to another chair in the shade. Promptly the U. S. team stopped play, the spectators half rose in uncertainty, the Queen sat down; and amid considerable laughter, at being diddled again, in which Her Majesty joined, the crowd resumed its seats, play again began...
THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED- The old farmer, the young wife and the hired man work out a stormy triangle amid California vineyards...
...held with orange blossoms and she carried a shower bouquet of white orchids and lilies of the valley." An amazing picture rose in the minds of the Tory breakfasters-that of a fashionable church, wall-eyed ushers, pretty bridesmaids, a young bridegroom of an excellent Washington family and, amid all the diaphaneity of lace and flowers so dewily described by the Times reporter, a bride who wheeled upon the shocked congregation a dusky face...
...Amid scenes of tremendous enthusiasm throughout the country, Constantine came back in 1920 and reigned until September, 1922. He was now a sick man and under constant fire from the Venizelists. The hopeful war against Turkey proved disastrous to Greek arms and in the ignominy of defeat, Constantine was for the second time chased from the country. He was succeeded by another son, Georgos II. The young King was moved by the best intentions, but was unable to keep his finger out of the political pie. This in itself was never a serious factor, but it entailed some friction...