Word: bound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minseito Premier Baron Wakatsuki opposed but was unable to stop the Army's plunge into Manchuria (TIME, Sept. 28). His successor, the Seiyukai's "Old Fox,'" pandered eagerly to the Army & Navy, but the costly setback at Shanghai forced the Foreign Office to negotiate what the fighting services were bound to consider a "disgraceful withdrawal" (TIME, May 16). This, though not the fault of the "Old Fox," led him straight into a trap of Japanese swashbuckling hysteria which cost him his life last week...
Together President Lebrun and Premier Tardieu then motored to Paris where M. Tardieu presented his Cabinet's resignation. Since the new Chamber will have a Left Centre majority, President Lebrun seemed bound to call on Edouard Herriot, most potent Left Centrist (see p. 20), to form a Cabinet soon, but meanwhile the President asked Right Centrist Andre Tardieu to carry on pending the assembling of the new Chamber in June...
Fleishhacker foolery reaches its summit in endless pranks with Kenneth Raleigh Kingsbury, head of Standard Oil of California. Once when Mr. Kingsbury was bound East, Banker Fleishhacker had great bunches of onions delivered to him at every station. Oilman Kingsbury retaliated by sending a truck filled with water buffaloes, elks, and lesser animals C. O. D. to the bank, its arrival being announced by a lusty, liveried bugler. Mr. Fleishhacker was once grieved to learn that his good friend had been bitten on the lip by a pet dog. Promptly he entered the Kingsbury sanctum on all fours, barking...
...live for some such loveliness Poet Dillon a year ago gave up his job as a Chicago advertising man, turned to poetry and a Guggenheim Fellowship. On April 30 he was already Europe-bound, off just too soon to receive news of his prize firsthand...
Experiences at sea had freed old Captain Archer of local New England trammels, just as experiences on shore had left his wife tradition-bound. Between these two influences their only child, Mattie. grew up, strait-laced and windy-willed at the same time. After her mother's death Mattie is free to do as she pleases, but nothing happens until the Ladybird and its blue-eyed Captain Isadore Davis put in to Bowfort. At the sight of free-&-easy Isadore, Mattie's blood goes wild. Out to sea she sails with him, without letting her father know...