Word: bound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bound from Brussels to London with eight passengers, mostly Britons going home for the holidays, the Imperial Airways transport Apollo drilled through a milky fog over western Belgium. As she neared the coast, between Bruges and Ostend. Apollo groped lower and lower. CRASH! She hit the mast of a wireless station, snapped it off, flopped to earth. FLASH! Flames shot high. Said one of the crew of the wireless station, afterward: "There was not a chance for the passengers or the two pilots. There was not a sound or a cry from the cabin...
...stiff hurdle, was catapulted to earth when it faltered and fell. Fully conscious, she was carried to her home, where doctors found that two broken neck vertebrae had partly paralyzed her right arm, completely paralyzed her right leg. Said her daughter : "Mother is resting well and making fine progress." Bound for Doom, to attend his grand father's 75th birthday party, Louis Ferdinand von Hohenzollern, Prince of Prussia, stopped off in New Orleans. Greeted at Shushan Airport by its hostess, Anne Robertson, pretty blonde debutante, Prince Louis Ferdinand forgot his formal engagements, went off with her on a round...
Down from the icy Mt. Washington range rushed a freezing winter gale Sunday night before last, howling among the eaves of tight little New Hampshire homesteads. Seated around their snug fireplaces, winter-bound New Hampshiremen listened to their radios. Those who were listening to gabby Walter Winchell's air column were in for a surprise. As a rule. Columnist Winchell confines himself to reporting who is whose "heart," what romances have "gone phffft" on "the Stem." Unexpectedly assuming the role of kingmaker, he jolted his listeners in the Granite State by announcing: "The New York Herald Tribune is plotting...
...committee nor in immediate want, Artist John Sloan who three weeks ago took over the pupils of the late great George Luks (TIME, Dec. 11), enjoyed the row hugely. 'The trouble is," said he, "the natural result of throwing corn in the chicken coop. There are bound to be feathers flying...
...Dunster House Bookshop now has on show finely bound books of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from collections of Augustan poets to the woodcut books of Clare Leighton...