Word: bound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...FOUR-POWER PACT (July 15, 1933), originated by Premier Mussohm and signed by him for Italy with the Ambassadors of Great Britain, Germany and France bound the signatories to "co-operate"-for ten years. Scared were the satellites of trance (Poland Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Rumania) who feared their protectrice was about make some sort of deal with Germany behind their backs. To calm the satellites clauses were inserted bringing action under the Four-Power Pact "within the framework ot the League of Nations, to which they are parties. German withdrawal from the League put the Pact...
...Bound for Florida, Mrs, Alfred Emanuel Smith was standing in a compartment on the Seaboard Air Liner Orange Blossom Special, when the train rounded a curve near Richmond, lurched, threw her heavily against a window ledge. Her husband summoned a doctor who treated her hastily, told her she could go on. Twenty-four hours later, suffering "from a broken arm and nervous shock. Mrs. Smith bedded herself in a West Palm Beach hospital, stayed there four days...
Perhaps that is not the reason however. It may be that the Comptroller of Gates and Doors is bound by his own precedents in his Yard and House policy. How could he have discriminated in the night lunch's favor by leaving open the entrance that was most accommodating...
...Nowhere Bound (by Leo Birinski; Birinski, Inc., producer) includes in its overstuffed cast characters named Tomski, McTavish, Schwartz, Grasso, Maureen, Basil Oxley, Ipolita Romanescu and A Young Turk. This polyglot crew is traveling involuntarily across the continent in a sleeping car on a special Government train. When they reach Ellis Island they are all to be deported as undesirable aliens. With this novel background, Playwright Birinski manages with considerable grace to produce a number of situations no less novel...
...happily ever after. But the gunman's ex-colleagues are loath to have him go. Two of them board the train, quietly pass the word among the passengers that, as witnesses to a murder, their stay in the U. S. will be indefinitely lengthened. After the murder, Nowhere Bound rather surprisingly turns from pretty good melodrama to pretty good farce...