Word: bound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just before his imprisonment he wrote: "If the outflow of gold continues India will soon become bankrupt. England is bankrupt and she is sure to pounce upon our gold reserves by all means, fair or foul. Moreover we are at war with England and we are not bound to help her at present...
...Baker's 47 Work-shop?and Johnny Case of Holiday (1928) are two Barry heroes with much in common: they hate the world of affairs, view big business with distrust. But another Richard, the composer who almost runs off with the well-to-do hero's wife in Paris Bound (1927), is moved to remark: "I used to curse into my beard whenever I passed a house like this. I used to spit on the pavement whenever a decent-looking motorcar passed me. I don't any more because I've found two among you whom I know...
...odds at mutuel tracks are mechanically determined by the varying amounts of money which bettors place on the various horses in a race. Bookmakers are bound to pay their clients at mutuel odds, which are theoretically a fair expression of opinion. But the mutuel odds on Linden Tree did not seem to be a fair expression of opinion. How this came about was explained by Baron Long, hotelman, racehorse owner and part owner of Agua Caliente Corp...
Numerous milder adventures were experienced by pilots of a hundred or more Miami-bound planes who encountered various brands of dirty weather. Of 24 members of the Amateur Air Pilots' Association who left Long Island Aviation Country Club in cavalcade three days before the meet began, only two?George Mallory Pynchon Jr. and Paula Lind? arrived on the opening day. The others were scattered, fogbound, between Sarasota, Fla. and Richmond, Va. Twenty attack planes from Fort Crockett, Tex., were still at Tallahassee on the second day of the races. A Boiling Field contingent was turned back by fog over South...
...Vagabond well remembers his first uplifting introduction to old Horatio. It was "Bound to Rise" and it was behind a barn near a door which was used by the farm hands when they made up the cows' beds fresh every morning. As he read the pages and heard stout Alger speak out loud and bold, the Vagabond truly felt like some watcher of the skies. Here was a man-man, did he say?-a youth of sixteen years is more like-who went to the city. On his very first day there, this boy was walking on an icy sidewalk...