Word: bounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. Journalized history ?the notion that whatever is news is history?is, in the U. S., only as old as the Sullivan-Beer school. Such a news-history of Chicago, a city with a blood-red reputation hitched to a star, is a book bound to pall in its chaotic, undigested collection of facts en masse; yet it is big with significance for readers who like to generalize. Author Smith's own generalizations include the following...
...deck again at the Capitol when the House passed the 15-cruiser bill last year. He handed out yellow-bound pamphlets abusing the British, bristling with statistics to prove the inferiority of the U. S. fleet. Only a few Congressmen realized they were being supplied with second-hand arguments, the same material Lobbyist Shearer had used at Geneva. In the midst of his lobbying, he made this statement...
Capt. Leopold Ziegenbein of the new, speedy German liner Bremen, was perturbed as he bustled his third shipload of passengers across the Atlantic, bound for New York. Some thief was stealing jewelry from the passengers' cabins; $25,000 worth was missing without a clue. With 600 stewards aboard, most of whom were as yet unknown to the officers, it looked like a hopeless case. Capt. Ziegenbein assembled 50 stewards whom the officers did know by sight, formed a ''vigilance committee." Before the Bremen docked, all the jewelry was recovered from the clutches of one Hans Barklage, a shrewd thief...
Maximilian Siegfried Adolf Otto Schmeling, his license to fight where fighting is most lucrative still withheld by the New York State Boxing Commission was "practically a nervous wreck" as he stepped aboard the Hamburg-American liner Albert Ballin, bound for Berlin, his mother and a rest. Warned that unless he soon returned Argentine's Victorio Maria Campolo would replace him as world's champion heavyweight contender, Herr Schmeling scoffed: "Campolo is a one-day fly ... here today and gone tomorrow...
...Marcel Knecht, secretary of Le Matin, gave it a place on the platform when he spoke on "Advertising and World Peace," suggested that if ever a United States of Europe should be formed, it would be to collaborate with the U. S. A., with everybody working in unison, bound together, of course, by advertising. Finally world peace was made a prime member of the convention by a resolution: "That this Congress . . . solemnly declares peace and international goodwill are essential to industrial progress and commercial success...