Word: bound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago, a masked, kid-gloved gunman broke into the apartment of Orlando and Helen James, newlyweds, bound & gagged the groom, turned up the radio, beat the bride with a lead-studded whip, raped her three times, munched candy, departed chuckling...
Fearing air raids on the exposed royal palace, plump Empress Menen, her 14-year-old daughter Princess Tsahai and Prince Makonnen, 11, climbed into a special train and disappeared in the direction of French Somaliland. All that could be learned in Addis Ababa was that they were bound for a secret hideaway near the Danakil Desert...
...train with Father Coughlin as it sped East was Mrs. Roosevelt bound out of Detroit. There she had dedicated a slum clearance project, spent a morning at her brother Gracie Hall Roosevelt's cottage on Brown's Lake near Jackson, Mich., while neighbors with field glasses ogled the First Lady disporting herself on the beach in shorts...
Last week, with the publication of Books VII and VIII. bound together and titled The World from Below, the general pattern of Men of Good Will became a little clearer. But the engrossing questions of its permanent literary value and of its probable influence and significance were as open to controversy as before. Less crowded with incidents than preceding volumes, The World from Below deals primarily with the dilemma of Jean Jerphanion, keen, ambitious, radical student whose desire to reform the world and prevent war is thwarted by his inability to find a political group or a party in whose...
Despite the stiff back he will have received from sitting wedged among his contemporaries on the floor, despite the weight of chicken a la king reposing in his stomach, the homeward bound Freshman will have a distinct feeling of stimulation and of pleasurable anticipation for the future...