Word: bound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...States of Brazil, largest South American state: "NOT BEING A MEMBER OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS BRAZIL DOES NOT PROPOSE TO PARTICIPATE IN MEASURES NOW ADOPTED BY THAT BODY." Re-Export Risk. Before adjourning for the week the League Sanctions Committee decided at Geneva that League States, even if bound not to sell directly to Italy after sanctions are applied, may sell to nonLeague States, even if the seller knows that the ultimate destination of the goods is Italy. Even this did not satisfy Rumania. Fortnight ago she received huge publicity for "endorsing sanctions at a heavy sacrifice." Last week...
...plates, the Brothers Lumière left the invention of the cinema to stew for years in a shambles of litigation. The basic invention, they considered, was that of George Eastman who in 1889 produced sheets of celluloid film with which motion pictures could be made and were bound to be made by someone as soon as the necessary machine was tinkered into shape. The idea was patented as early as 1864 by a now forgotten Frenchman named Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron. In terms of pure theory he set down accurately at great length what ought to be done...
...jury; in St. Louis. The case was regarded as a prime test of the legality of the U. S. cinema distributing system. Died. Harold Ellicott Scarborough, 38, until lately European editorial manager and head of the London Bureau of the New York Herald Tribune; by leaping from the Southampton-bound Berengaria off the Isle of Wight. With the Tribune and Herald Tribune since 1920, he had been recalled to Manhattan to write editorials, had resigned instead to free-lance in London. Died. Dr. Dorothy Scarborough, 58, author, associate professor of English at Columbia University where she conducted a popular course...
Only yesterday the scandal began; only yesterday Senor Donna Inez sent the rapscallion away. But why be angry with the world? It is bound to turn on its axis; and the Senoritas and the Maters and the Paters and all humanity along with it. One must live, die, make love, pay taxes. Why fret about them if the hour be sweet. It is all amusing; dangerous; melancholy; inevitable. Philosopher's food; the poet's playground; the lover's misery. And so away: the soul of living is its license. Thus mused Donny Juan; and some hundred cantos bear witness...
...cultured pall of Park Square, the Playgoer moves upon Times Square. The New York boards are teeming with activity, and there are no many worthy productions that the be-Bostoned conductor of this column is all in a dither with an embarrassment of riches to recommend to his Princeton-bound public. With a dash of courage let's have at this long list of theatrical diversions...