Word: bound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Klondike Annie is really worth the attention of Congressmen will depend on how familiar they are with earlier West efforts from which the current one differs only in detail. This time she is a San Francisco strumpet who knifes her Chinese paramour, slips on board an Alaska-bound freighter, enraptures its captain (Victor McLaglen), befriends a churchworker bound for Nome, usurps her identity when she dies, lands in Nome as Sister Annie Alden, enslaves a young territorial police officer (Philip Reed), renounces him rather than ruin his career, returns to San Francisco to face the music. As usual, the comedy...
...chief British interest in Ethiopia is Lake Tana and the Nile Basin. These represent also an interest of Egypt, which His Majesty's Government are bound to protect. In the event that Ethiopia should disappear as an independent State, His Majesty's Government should seek to secure territorial control over Lake Tana and an adequate corridor joining this lake to the Sudan...
Among the most valuable of the first editions of Hearn's works is a yellow-bound copy of "Some Chinese Ghosts," published in Boston by Roberts Brothers in 1887. Most of the edition was destroyed by the publisher immediately after the printing over a misunderstanding with the author and very few copies remain...
...late hour last night before a capacity audience of news photographers summoned especially to gratify his vanity, Dr. Hu Flung Huey ocC out-flung Little David, George Washington, Governor Curley, Miss Joyce Henry and the President of the Student Council on the banks of the ice bound Charles...
...They don't have to spend a lot of time and work in building up a public. Of course not all good athletes have the ability to act. Some of them seem muscle bound or something. Max Baer is a good example of a talented athlete who made good in pictures, but he got much too swell headed...