Word: bound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Touching on somewhat the same ground as that tread by Philip Barry in "Paris Bound" the author of "Young Love" has produced a highly diverting comedy. With but four characters to interpret him, he has built a setting of very obvious contrast. Two young people engaged to be married are set off against a young married couple. And as the faith of the youngsters in the everlasting bliss and contentment of the marital state resolves itself into a gaping doubt, Mr. Raphaelson lightly expounds his thesis...
...allowing a man to make use of the stipend for but two years the committee removes the stigma from those who find it necessary or desirable not to return for a third years. In many cases the type of education offered at Oxford is bound to vary from that expected or desired by the candidate who comes from a country of different traditions and standards. Two years should be sufficient to determine the possible value of a third, and if during this time the student finds that he has reaped all possible profit, it is unfortunate that the force...
...hostess, Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, at official dinners is not settled. He has notified the Secretary of State, Mr. Stimson, of his dissatisfaction "with the action of the former Secretary, Mr. Kellogg, and has asked for a reversal of it. . . . The Vice President feels that he is not bound by Mr. Kellogg's conclusion and has protested to Mr. Stimson...
...Full-length, light films which substitute character comedy for slapstick, and homely atmosphere for romantic, amuse and charm adult audiences but rarely do well at the boxoffice. John Ford, who directed Four Sons and The Iron Horse, has now had a lot of fun showing how a muscle-bound baggage smasher carved his way in the world. To Smasher Victor McLaglen's girl, "promotion" meant a white collar; to Smasher McLaglen it meant a job he liked. Told to pick his own job after he kept a trunk from falling on the daughter of a railroad director, he chose...
Gifford Pinchot, onetime Governor of Pennsylvania, sailed last week from Brooklyn in his schooner, the Mary Pinchot, bound for the Caribbean, Galapagos, Tahiti. With him were his wife and son, Gifford Jr. An hour after he sailed he had to return. Reasons: ammonia fumes were escaping from a pipe in the refrigerating system, the telegraph system between the captain's cabin and the engine room was out of order. Three days later he sailed again. No mishaps interfered...