Word: bom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...back as 1893 go the Standard-Shell battles. When the contest for markets was in infancy, Deterding was in the Shell service at Batavia (Dutch East Indies) and Meyer was managing the Bom bay office of Standard Oil. Standard...
ADVENTURES or AN AFRICAN SLAVER, Being a True Account of the Life of Captain Theodore Canot, Trader in Gold, Ivory & Slaves on the Coast of Guinea: His Own Story as told in the Year 1854 to Brantz Mayer & Now Edited with an Introduction by Malcolm Cowley-A. & C. Bom...
...Bom. To Princess Anna Ilynski, and the Grand Duke Dimitri of Russia, cousin of the late Tsar Nicholas; a son, in London. From his father the child inherits the unlikely chance of someday becoming Tsar of Russia; from his mother, who was Miss Audrey Emery of Manhattan, the millions of his late grandfather, Leather King John Emery...
...SANDHILLS? Antony Marsden?A. & C. Bom ($2). John Creed, perfect English gentleman, calls late at night upon a Mr. Murgatroyd to punch his head for a card game insult. Mr. Murgatroyd drops dead after taking a right to the chin. A motorcycle and a friend's lugger land John Creed safely among the dunes of France. With Scotland Yard sleuthing furiously in alternate chapters, John Creed evades the law through great physical discomfort, many a hairbreadth escape, but never for an instant ceases to be a perfect English gentleman. He rides in a circus, skins through a fire, hides...
...such clowning the Soviet populace is painlessly "educated." But of late there have not been enough clowns at the Government's disposal. Last week, as the "Academy" was opened, it was announced that "Bim" and "Bom" famed and beloved Russian clowns will be employed as instructors...