Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boris Karloff), who has already been deranged (The Lost Patrol), mummified (The Mummy), roasted alive (Frankenstein), resurrected (The Son of Frankenstein). Horror-man Karloff is now introduced to one of Hollywood's most accomplished villains (Basil Rathbone) in the cellars of the Tower of London circa 1480. There, amidst moaning victims, clanking chains and chopping blocks, Villain Rathbone (the crookbacked Richard, Duke of Gloucester) shows Monster Karloff (Mord, the club-footed constable of the Tower) how to satisfy an active homicidal mania by murdering the four candidates who are preventing Duke Richard from becoming King Richard III of England...
...contest waxed hot, it became obvious that Lerner and Ayer had something that the others in the contest didn't have. The decision was a unanimous victory for Harvard. The prize of a bottle of champagne to each winner was awarded amidst great cheers of anticipation...
...favorite hobby is solving acrostic puzzles with his family. He also likes to read detective stories, fancies himself as a farmer. But John Dewey spends most of his time thinking. Father of six children (two died young and he adopted another), he early learned to concentrate on his work amidst domestic bustle. To his classes he lectured in a monotonous voice, made no rhetorical effort whatever to interest his audience. Once, after droning on to graduate students for three solid hours on the meaning of the word "this," he concluded: "I think this is a little clearer...
Another Laborite, George Griffith, called out: "Sack the lot!" Amidst more laughter Sir Edward said that Lord Macmillan, Minister of Information, recognized that "the situation requires investigation." Interrupting him, Socialist J. J. Davison shouted: "It requires evacuation!" The House cheered...
...walking along Heerengracht Canal, Amsterdam, fortnight ago, would have bothered to look twice at No. 412. Four stories high, of dull sandstone, the modest building had no name plate by its door. Nor was there anything spectacular inside, just 30 quiet employes working amidst a lot of papers...