Word: bounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gloria Swanson, cinemactress, Europe-bound to see her latest husband, James Henri la Baily de la Falaise, Marquis de La Coudraye, squealed with delight at a present in her steamer stateroom. Within a gilt-edged, blue-ribboned box, wreathed with laurel, lay an antique bottle labelled: Bethlehem Rye, Guaranteed Twenty Years Old. She sent for charged water, ice, glasses, corkscrew. She held the bottle to the light to admire its tawny contents. The bottle was empty...
...snorted indignantly. Two facts are basic in this international dispute: 1) Canada grants clearance of liquor cargoes for the U. S. on excise payments; 2) the U. S. requires, under its navigation laws, no clearance for pleasure craft under five tons-the category into which most rum runners fall-bound for a foreign port. For months U. S. officials have been trying to persuade Canada to deny liquor clearance papers, to make it illegal in Canada to export liquor to the U. S. Last week Minister Euler met this U. S. request with a counter-proposition...
...morning, peasant clad, without seeing to her dogs and birds as she usually did. The few old servitors at Starilec. humble, discreet, waited several days, then reported their mistress' disappearance. Out rushed eager search parties to comb crag and dale for "the richest woman in Jugoslavia." There was bound to be pots of money in it for the man who found her, perhaps wounded by some wild animal in the rocky woods...
John Davison Rockefeller III sailed from Manhattan as secretary to James Grover MacDonald, Chairman of the For eign Policy Association, bound for the October meeting of the Institute of Pacific Relations at Kyoto, Japan...
Broadway Nights. The Brothers Shubert, playing an infallible system which calls for sprigs of vaudeville and bouquets of decoration, find it profitable to keep at least two musical shows going at once. No sooner had their Pleasure Bound closed than they prepared Broadway Nights to companion their A Night in Venice. If a blindfolded playgoer were ushered into one, then permitted to look, he might easily mistake it for the other...