Word: amide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cleveland, O., June 12.--Amid a bedlam of shouting and noise that rivaled that of previous years, for the first time since the convention started, General Charles Gates Dawes of Illinois, was nominated tonight as the Republican candidate for vice-president. The third ballot saw a landslide of votes to the financier's faction after Governor Frank Orren Lowden of Illinois had refused the nomination that was tendered to him on the second ballot...
...open. Ironical cheers from the Conservatives greeted this reprieve for the Laborite Government. Mr. Asquith turned, as if in surprise, and concluded: "I can assure the somewhat skeptical minds of the opposition that we will take the freest advantage of a perfectly independent scrutiny of the results actually attained." Amid great excitement, division was taken and resulted in a vote of 300 to 252 votes in favor of the Government. House of Lords. After days of argument the law lords of the House of Lords* reversed a decision of the Court of Appeals and declared that the infant...
Borne high amid triumphant cheers...
...British Empire Exhibition, the Zoo, attended a great luncheon in the Guild Hall. At the Italian Embassy, the Italian Sovereign and his Consort gave a dinner to which the British King and Queen, members of the Royal Family, many Government and distinguished people were invited. They then departed amid volleys of British "Hip, Hip, Hurrahs" and "Gawd Bless 'ems," Italian vivas and salutes galore...
...Amid the ruins of Pompeii, the Royal University of Naples celebrated its 700th anniversary by a picturesque pageant. Ancient rites of Parthenope (the Greek Naples) were staged in the twilight, including the "lampaded-romiae," wherein beautiful young women in classic drapery ran about handing symbolically from one generation to another the flaming torch of Life and Science...