Word: bolan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...BOLAN Chicago...
Manhattan members of the Russian Nobility Association were outraged to discover their president, Prince Alexis Obolensky, playing the part of a Soviet Commissar in the musical hit Leave It to Me, under the stage name of Alexis Bolan. Given the choice of quitting office or his job, the Prince said: "I am a professional actor," resigned from the Nobility Association. Said his wife: "It is too bad that some members . . . failed to understand that my husband really is serving the interests of loyal Tsarists ... by making a fool of the character he plays...
...library exhibit, which will continue through February 20, consists largely of loans from Bayard L. Kilgour, Jr., '27, of Cincinnati, Ohio; S. J. Bolan, of New York City, dealer in Russian books; and Princess Xenia, of Russia, at present a resident of Syosset, Long Island, New York...
Britain's famed "thin red line" of Empire goes little farther than Quetta, lying beyond the Suliman mountains which wall off India's rich valley of the Indus. The vulnerable door in that wall is the Bolan Pass. With its back to the door is Quetta; beyond it, on the British railroad to the Afghan border, the forts of New Chaman and Pishin. This is the land of the fanatic, black-bearded Pathans. And at Quetta, to draw their teeth, are stationed a British division, the Indian Staff College, a Royal Air Force training school and Sir Alexander...
...reports came in. The bell was not in Tokyo, not in Canton, not in Shanghai, not in Hong Kong. Durban and Cape Town could not find it, nor could New Caledonia, Suva, Papeete, Singapore, Hawaii. Vancouver, Amsterdam and Liverpool were a blank and Manhattan Police Commissioner Bolan had no tidings...