Word: amongst
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seats. The growing noise lacked spontaneity. It was a rumble, then a roar. It in no way resembled an explosion. But Nominator Me Nab saw that everything was going to be all right so he left the lectern completely and walked back to stand and watch amongst the seated members of the National Committee...
...Liberty is being crucified at our very door, and the United States looks on with perfect indifference. Despotism seems to have become popular amongst us. Are we not sending endless goodwill parties to Mexico? Are we not courting the friendship and favor of the very men whose hands are simply dripping with the blood of their innocent victims? . . . The ominous silence of the American press and pulpit is not understandable...
...evident that the persons who think that a Chinaman can not do the "baggage lugging, berth boosting, window opening" task of a Negro Pullman Porter is badly mistaken and can learn a lot about the strength and endurance of a Chinaman, by spending a week-end** out here amongst them...
...horse, Tony, do their stuff once again, this time for the reluctant heart of a circus queen. Amongst other adventures possible in the woolly West, they break jail, lasso the girl off the back of a runaway elephant, write "I love you" into a wooden fence with bullets. The sheepish grin, buoyant acrobatics, baffled villain are on hand as usual. All in all, a good Tom Mixture...
...Whirlwind of Youth (Lois Moran). He who runs amuck amongst women is considered the sweetest catch. In this film, evolved pleasantly enough from A. Hamilton Gibb's novel, Soundings, the cocky Lothario finds that a glance from Nancy (Lois Moran) plumbs depths of emotion hitherto unknown and strangely captivating. Most of this goes on in Flanders Fields where he is a soldier and she an ambulance driver; where one may sigh for a battered village and smile at pompous officers...