Word: bound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Watson's rival Floor-leader. Senator Joseph T. Robinson, had just reached the high pitch of a speech when out flew his false upper teeth. Retiring to the wings, he reinserted the plate and asked: "Why didn't they laugh?" A friend: "You had them spell-bound...
...toothed partisan Small, Big Bill proceeded to give Judge Horner a forensic log-ride. Downstate rural clodhoppers gawped, snickered and nodded approvingly when he shouted: "My friends, I don't have to tell you that Levys don't eat hogs. If Horner is elected, hog prices are bound to drop. Furthermore, Jews run pawnshops, and the first thing Horner will do if he gets to Springfield is open a pawnshop. He was put up by Tony Cermak [Mayor Anton J. Cermak of Chicago, who turned Thompson out of office] to get the Jewish vote...
...dirt-cheap price of $2,000,000, Persia's new Navy consists of two small gunboats mounting four-inch, three-inch and anti-aircraft guns plus four smaller gunboats with three-inch guns. Last week, proudly flying Persia's leonine standard,* the Navy steamed out of Naples, bound for the Persian port of Mohammerah. Officers and crews of the six new ships are 100% Persian, smartly uniformed and painstakingly trained at the Italian Leghorn Naval Academy. As one Dictator to another, Benito Mussolini was delighted to build and sell a navy to the "King of Kings" who began...
...Manhattan William Bound, seaman, said "No" to a beggar. Police later found Seaman Bound lying on the sidewalk with stab wounds in chest, arm and shoulder...
Vividly last week the crew of the Holland America liner Rotterdam, homeward bound from New York, displayed their national temperament. No disturbance broke the calm of the first nine days of the crossing except in the smoking room, where the Dutch Olympic team was en thusiastically breaking training. Rotterdam, the Dutch home port, was paralyzed by a seamen's strike. As the 21-year-old Rotterdam pushed her high prow past England's Bishop Rock, Rotterdam's strikers sent wireless messages to Rotterdam's crew. They were never delivered. Apparently acting under orders from the main...