Word: amide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the past week, the Lord High Chancellor took his seat on the Woolsack* and their lordships debated the bill. From amid the encircling gloom arose Dr. Herbert Hensley Henson, whose style is the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Durham, 86th of those to hold that dignity. The Bishop, so the story ran, "jolted" his fellow Bishops by telling them: "Better a free Britain than a sober one." Such simple, wet words from a leader of the church militant had effect in defeating the bill by 166 to 50 votes. Their dry lordships continued to hold fast to their...
Both Presidents waived the immunity of their members. Defending his action in the Prussian Landtag, President Leinert declared amid Communist jeers: "Immunity is always to be defended unless thereby the general welfare is jeopardized. But as I will not protect murderers, I permitted the police to make the search...
...more labored scenic effort for sensation. Even so, it leaves the mass of present-day American films far, far behind. Known abroad as One Night Between Worlds it argues the fantastic irony of death. Through a young fraulein's dream phantasmagoria, a shadowy Stranger stalks and skulks, luring her amid exotic scenes in Peking, Bagdad, Venice on one of those baffling nightmare quests for a dead lover. Fritz Lang directed; Lil Dagover performed this vehicle for Germanic supernaturalism? now absurdly childish, now weirdly beautiful...
...first decided to call the freak a "liger" (TIME, July 7), but the Zoo declined to stand for it. It was found that the hybrid was not the child of a lion and tigress, but of a tiger and lioness. Amid plaudits from animals it was decided to call the infant hybrid a "Tigon...
...rest of the story is a dizzying mélange of Peter's wanderings seeking Georgina amid the Bolsheviks in Russia, the Sinn Feiners in Ireland, the Fascisti in Rome, the Ku Kluxers in the U. S. Georgina is continually turning up, conveniently but mysteriously, in the course of his terrestrial ambulations, and ectoplasmically fading from the picture again...